Example sentences of "[vb base] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 2 | She could n't ask him to stay then yell at him for caring for her . |
| 3 | IT 'S the time you lean out of your car window when a man says something about women drivers and yell at them to ‘ come over here and say that . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ And you sneer at me about honour , sir ? |
| 5 | Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them . |
| 6 | When deciding how wide to make your stance , look at yourself in a full length mirror to see what kind of a target you present for the opponent . |
| 7 | Look at yourself in the mirror . |
| 8 | If you look at yourself in a mirror , a pool of water , or any shiny , flat surface , you will see your own reflection . |
| 9 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , you are gazing into the eyes of a predator . |
| 10 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , no amount of willing can remove er , fat around your waist . |
| 11 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 12 | If you look at something like the Institute for Group Psychotherapy in London , it 's founded on other writings than Freud 's writings on Group Psychology . |
| 13 | So if you look at something like Q P5 where you have got this point qualitated , in fact a lot of the points do n't actually apply to qualitated because many of the points relate to erm , D P erm , qualitative field as opposed to survey . |
| 14 | But it makes you wonder , really , when you when you look at something like that how erm how well represented that was or representative of the kind of language that wa , that was used by er , ordinary people . |
| 15 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 16 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 17 | No man could speak with such passionate urgency , look at her with such naked yearning , and not mean what he was saying . |
| 18 | You were together when you moved in though were n't you ? cos I remember you moving in like thinking cor look at her with three kids , yeah . |
| 19 | ‘ Look at her through your binoculars … mutton dressed as lamb . |
| 20 | I look at her in surprise and she shrugs gracelessly , as if she were refusing to take responsibility for her indolence rather than her zeal . |
| 21 | He had probably come to the same conclusion and if she tried to give some kind of explanation he would raise his eyebrows and look at her in astonishment , and she would feel utterly foolish . |
| 22 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 23 | No , no , do n't interrupt me and look at me with those wild eyes . |
| 24 | You 're very beautiful , very provocative , when you look at me with those flirting eyes . ’ |
| 25 | He was gon na tell you this morning he said look at me with daddy ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm tired of men who look at me as if I were a fillet steak , that 's all . ’ |
| 27 | People look at me as if I 'm a green man from outer space . |
| 28 | And the amount of people come in , with a cigarette I have to go up and tell them that it 's a no-smoking area and they look at me as if I 'm stupid ! |
| 29 | For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them . |
| 30 | As he was saying goodbye today , I saw him open his mouth and look at me in that way . |