Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The new Lady Deverill was the centre of a group by the fireplace , smoking her habitual cigarette and laughing at something a handsome man by her side was saying .
2 One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger .
3 He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal .
4 I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like .
5 As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective .
6 Hungary drops the ‘ workers ’ : Imre Karacs in Budapest looks at what a change of name and newspaper means for the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party
7 Astrologer Carol Morris looks at what the heavens hold this week
8 Astrologer Carol Morris looks at what the heavens hold this week
9 In the first of a three part series , Liz Hannam looks at what the society has to cope with in a typical twenty-four hours .
10 Well you see that you see , she probably looks at it every day and thinks , oh hideous !
11 ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’
12 Beneath the heaven of feeling that he needed her were the remnants of pain caused by the memory of how he had looked at her the morning after they had made love .
13 She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle .
14 His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine .
15 The notice given should be reasonable , and the date , time and place at which the applicant 's attendance is required should be specified , with a reference to the relevant section of the Act , viz. 5.15 .
16 During the interviews I tried to probe whether what was meant was the ageing of the population , a change of atmosphere , the community 's material demise or what ; but on occasion I had to guess at what the informant really meant .
17 Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’
18 Occasionally a thin savage streak of wiry blue hinted at what the storm could really do if it tried .
19 I was a little disappointed with the film ; I would like to have seen it erm more analytical , a little more hard hitting in terms of looking at what a local radio station does .
20 He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match .
21 We may begin by looking at what the two terms ‘ marked ’ and ‘ unmarked ’ mean .
22 First we checked what the food supplies were like in the area simply by looking at what the local cats were bringing in .
23 Sutton was looking at what the public bought today .
24 Looking at what the examples given by Which are concerned the solicitor was only charging about thirty percent of what the bank would .
25 Tonight Scotland Today 's Stephen Jardine begins a special three part series looking at what the cynics call … the granny farms .
26 but I mean when you start looking at what the topics are in sociology , there 's nothing really
27 And I think that there 's a massive problem that needs to be addressed , and I think we should involve those people themselves , also in looking at what the issues are , it 's all very well for people to decide , workers to think that they know what the issues are .
28 I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping .
29 was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant .
30 Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience .
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