Example sentences of "be [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 4 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 5 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 6 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 7 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 8 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 9 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |
| 10 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 11 | Natasha : You 're looking at me in a very strange way ! |
| 12 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 13 | That 's only because you 're looking at it in a very short- term perspective , they , the way they saw the communist revolution was by a very long drawn out process and so it was n't that the revolution had just created this was , this was an important step in order to lead to their ultimate goal . |
| 14 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 15 | I can tell from the way you 're sparking at me like a green-eyed cat that there 's nothing you 'd like more . ’ |
| 16 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 17 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 18 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 19 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 20 | It was rather like going down into a horrid , dark , earthy hole , where dull crimson firs burned and where grinning creatures might be peering at you from the shadows . |
| 21 | And he certainly did n't expect the said Britton to be pointing at him in a manner usually affected by people like Darth Vader or Banquo . |
| 22 | But questions continued to be hurled at him from every side , and eventually , as an extraordinary mark of favour , he consented to answer one or two of them . |
| 23 | Yes ar are not that good but I 'm working at it on a sort of regional basis erm but you may have to keep me here for a very long time in order to achieve it . |
| 24 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 25 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 26 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 27 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 28 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 29 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 30 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |