Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of these whipped back at him and as he caught at it a thorn drove into the fleshy pad of his finger . |
| 2 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
| 3 | I say it again and the man looks at me a bit angry like . |
| 4 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 5 | Well you see that you see , she probably looks at it every day and thinks , oh hideous ! |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? ’ |
| 11 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 12 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 13 | Paige found just looking at him a very heady experience . |
| 14 | She was looking at him the way his other nanny looked at her budgie . |
| 15 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 16 | I caught Cam looking at me the other day . |
| 17 | She found him looking at her a little too intently and lowered her gaze . |
| 18 | Right , so er yeah , I was looking at her a couple of cheapies in there . |
| 19 | It 's just sort of looking at 'em a bit . |
| 20 | " Because I want to be with you , looking at you every minute I possibly can . |
| 21 | Giulia told me he was looking at you the way a starving man looks at a plate of pasta . ’ |
| 22 | Looking at it a different way , having decided not to attempt to save China by its efforts , there was only a faint hope that the US could save Vietnam by its example — as a successful democracy . |
| 23 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 24 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 25 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 26 | mum goes , do n't you swear at her no swearing thank you , and it 's like she hates swearing , it 's like , not even swearing cows and animals |
| 27 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |
| 28 | See what he 's doing with his fur , look scratching and it 's going off and , he knocks his fur off and then it falls , falls out look at him the |
| 29 | I assure him that we look at them every year , but he is aware , as he said during his speech , that there are two different objectives : one is to make the assessments as simple as possible ; the other is to make them as fair as possible . |
| 30 | Look at it every day . |