Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 3 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 4 | The young woman peered at him from under the brim of her ancient straw hat . |
| 5 | A familiar but still timid stray cat peered at him from beneath a blackcurrant bush and howled piteously . |
| 6 | Aunt Louise peered at me from almost sightless eyes . |
| 7 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 8 | He peered at her from under the cloth cap which he was using to shade his face , and she lay on her side to face him . |
| 9 | The person who had nearly strangled her had come at her from behind . |
| 10 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 11 | Because she is a woman , John glances at her from time to time : because she is a woman . |
| 12 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 13 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 14 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 15 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 16 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 19 | He was looking at me from under his dark brows , his voice low . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ? |
| 22 | Hoomey was looking at her from under the seat in front . |
| 23 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 24 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 25 | He was looking at her from beneath thick brows . |
| 26 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 27 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 28 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 29 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 30 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |