Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
| 2 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
| 3 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
| 4 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 5 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
| 6 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 7 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 8 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
| 9 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 10 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 11 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 12 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 13 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 14 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |
| 15 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 16 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 17 | When a few minutes later , amid the oohs and aahs from the three women , she stood and looked at the person staring back at her from the long mirror , she could n't believe it was herself . |
| 18 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 19 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's more than you 'd dare , Deveraugh , ’ she threw at him from the relative safety of the riverbank , and he laughed softly , the sound of it filling her ears as she sped across the grass . |
| 21 | She smiled at him from the opposite stool . |
| 22 | But now , a week after Easter , his failure stared at him from the empty pews . |
| 23 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 24 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 25 | Well let's have a look at it from a simplistic point of view , Okay . |
| 26 | Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’ |
| 27 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 28 | looking at it from a different point of view and measuring different things . |
| 29 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 30 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |