Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 2 | The lieutenant looked at him without enthusiasm . |
| 3 | The snake looked at him with its two small cold eyes , and moved through the open mouth and went round and round the neck , and stopped . |
| 4 | The stranger looked at me with his good eye . |
| 5 | The bear sprang at him with a growl . |
| 6 | The bear roared at him with fury , its black muzzle and huge jaws covered in a thick white froth . |
| 7 | The Corporal looked at me in amazement . |
| 8 | THE shepherd stared at us in disbelief . |
| 9 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 10 | The priest looked at her with contempt . |
| 11 | The girl looked at him in wonder . |
| 12 | Billie came awake , wondered where she was , saw the girl looking at her with concern . |
| 13 | Oliver was told that Monks was his half-brother , and the boy stared at him in shock and amazement . |
| 14 | When the boy rose at him on foot , none too steadily but with grim gallantry , and dripping blood from the finger-ends of his mail gauntlet , Owen vaulted promptly out of the saddle to match him , and waved off his companions , who would have borne the young man down by sheer weight . |
| 15 | The coroner glared at him through narrowed eyes . |
| 16 | The mouse looked at her with its little eyes , but it said nothing . |
| 17 | The housekeeper looked at her with concern . |
| 18 | The rest of the group stared at us like a hanging jury before sentence is passed . |
| 19 | The rising tower of debris blossomed and drifted , starting to fall as the shockwave pulsed at me from the dune . |
| 20 | I walk into the water smiling at him through tears . |
| 21 | The King looked at him in surprise . |
| 22 | The Brigadier glared at me for a few seconds and replied rather quietly . |
| 23 | ‘ I explained to the prince that you were my companion and he said — all the while gazing at you across the hall — ‘ But a relative none the less , I 'll warrant ! |
| 24 | The policeman looked at me for a long time . |
| 25 | The Fed is still sore from the criticism thrown at it for pushing America into recession ; if it tightens policy before official figures show inflation to be rising , it will come under fierce political attack . |
| 26 | The separation of the mode of discovery and the mode of justification does enable the inductivists to evade that part of the criticism levelled at them in this chapter which was directed at the claim that science starts with observation . |
| 27 | Heads low , they pressed on , galloping whenever there was a moment 's calm and heat , turning away from the ice-laden wind when the ferocious shards of the glacier came at them like insects . |
| 28 | The aunt looked at him in angry surprise . |
| 29 | Foolish in that it gave a great deal away to the other woman , and she could tell the woman looked at her as someone who could be aggressive and perhaps a bit vulgar , someone who said things which ought never even to have been thought . |
| 30 | The woman looked at them for a moment over the book she had pulled from the shelf . |