Example sentences of "at [pron] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
| 2 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 3 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 4 | I 'm meant to be fighting the Germans , not going to a wedding , he said out loud , as he looked at himself in the cracked mirror above the washbasin . |
| 5 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 6 | The special difficulty is not how to choose between several alternative computational accounts , once we have got them , but how to arrive even at one in the first place . |
| 7 | Rose never interested in clothes before , tried the lot on and beamed at herself in the long mirror . |
| 8 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 10 | In her bedroom , Honor gazed at herself in the cracked mirror , a sense of hopelessness bringing tears to her eyes . |
| 11 | He stared at her in the poor light that filtered through a tiny window above the door . |
| 12 | They looked at her in the flickering light of the matches . |
| 13 | She went over to the shelf where she had left her drink , and stared down in dismay at the overturned glass , the shards of crystal glinting wickedly up at her in the dim light . |
| 14 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 15 | She sees that Harriet is quietly gazing at her in the red firelight . |
| 16 | " Hazel ? " said Bigwig , sniffing at him in the deep twilight among the tree-roots . |
| 17 | Curtis then came back at him in the following set , to take a 4–2 lead , but the Nottingham player was swift to respond with a counter-attack , taking the next two games to square the set . |
| 18 | But Slorne could only stare mutely at him in the cold moonlight . |
| 19 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 20 | She went scarlet , speechless with rage as she glared at him in the sunlit interior of the car , eyes burning over his hard profile and sexy black leather jacket . |
| 21 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 22 | I think it 's a terribly difficult thing to do , but I 'd like to have a go at it in the following way , by saying that somebody is a case of sexual harassment has occurred when the behaviour of one person makes another person uncomfortable in such a way that that person , the person who 's uncomfortable , becomes overly conscious of their gender or sexual characteristics . |
| 23 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 24 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 25 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
| 26 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 27 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 28 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |