Example sentences of "[vb base] at [pron] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at yourself in the mirror . |
| 2 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , you are gazing into the eyes of a predator . |
| 3 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , no amount of willing can remove er , fat around your waist . |
| 4 | If you look at something like the Institute for Group Psychotherapy in London , it 's founded on other writings than Freud 's writings on Group Psychology . |
| 5 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 6 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 7 | I get all dolled up for a party and then I look at myself in the mirror and suddenly chicken out , put my jeans on , ruffle up my hair , and only then do I feel comfortable . ’ |
| 8 | A few days later , I look at myself in the mirror . |
| 9 | They look at everything from the point of view of the provider and their only discernible policy is that they are against privatization . |
| 10 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 11 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 12 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |
| 13 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 14 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 15 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 16 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 17 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 18 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 19 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 20 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 21 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 22 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 23 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 24 | I smile at myself in the mirror . |
| 25 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 26 | He nodded towards Thomas , who had wandered off to squat down on the terrace and poke at something at the foot of the vines . |
| 27 | I grin at myself in the mirror . |
| 28 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |
| 29 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |