Example sentences of "at [pron] [adv] [adv] [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
| 2 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
| 3 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
| 4 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 5 | He looked at her more closely as she poured the stale brownish water from the vase down the sink . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh my ! ’ said Bob , looking at her more seriously than his voice would have suggested , ‘ you have changed your tune . |
| 7 | He smiled at her again later when she was up at the bar ordering a second round for her and Natasha , as he and his friends were standing further along the bar . |
| 8 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
| 9 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
| 10 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
| 11 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 12 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 13 | If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death . |