Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped eating to grin at me . |
| 2 | He was so thin he looked like even the birds would n't want to peck at him . |
| 3 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
| 4 | ‘ Then I 'll need to work at it even harder than I am at the moment . ’ |
| 5 | Listen to a top art director talking about his job : " I think I am probably better now than I was fifteen years ago but one has to work at it , pushing oneself further and further — subjecting oneself to vicious self-criticism . |
| 6 | He 's dying to glare at me , but his neighbour , Mrs Mills , needs advice about a motor car . |
| 7 | I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king |
| 8 | Uncle An , Uncle Andrew needs to look at it . |
| 9 | To herself she thought : I want to look at him again to see exactly what colour . |
| 10 | The agent 's estimates are here if you want to look at them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I want to look at them . ’ |
| 12 | So I want to look at them at dinner time and share them with you this afternoon . |
| 13 | I want to look at them . |
| 14 | But I want to look at them both and I will go through them as well and mark them for spelling and for for your punctuation and everything else . |
| 15 | The neck is a wee bit too wide for the strings , or the bridge is too narrow for the neck — whichever way you want to look at it . |
| 16 | If you then want to look at it in yet another way you 've got to do it all over again . |
| 17 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 18 | Umm I think a big one here , cos I want to look at it from in there . |
| 19 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 20 | ‘ Supposing I say I want to look at you , to hear you talk in your funny English voice ? |
| 21 | ‘ I want to look at you . |
| 22 | ‘ I want to look at you , Lissa , ’ he muttered huskily . |
| 23 | ‘ I want to look at you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 25 | mhm Well I just want to look at you people now . |
| 26 | ‘ You would n't know to look at me now , ’ she 'd say , ‘ but I could hold them spellbound , the things I could do on that bike in a crash helmet and a pair of tights and a stars and stripes swimsuit . ’ |
| 27 | Cadéac , though you would never know to look at it , is in actuality a mini-spa , an example of the purely local spas you can find in the Pyrenees , whose reputation extends only through one valley and which attract as a consequence almost exclusively local people . |
| 28 | we 'd need to look at it again , would n't we ? |
| 29 | If you wish to examine the mental condition of the couple entering into such a liaison , then you do not need to look at mine . |
| 30 | So many of them have come to look at it and gone away promising to let me know — and then , not another word . ’ |