Example sentences of "[vb base] at [pers pn] from " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes they leap at it from behind and claw at its head feathers . |
| 2 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 3 | I go across and look at them from close to . |
| 4 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 5 | Look at it from their point of view . |
| 6 | ‘ The Beatles were a brilliant thing that happened , but if you look at it from another point of view , what a waste of time . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ But look at it from their point of view . |
| 8 | Look at it from Rosie 's perspective . |
| 9 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 10 | If you look at it from round that way it 's two lots of six . |
| 11 | But if you look at it from this way four people standing there they 'll get three each . |
| 12 | ‘ Look at it from their point of view . |
| 13 | But look at it from my angle . |
| 14 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 15 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 16 | Now , let's go back to what and say and look at it from offspring A's point of view . |
| 17 | So it looks as if you , people 's emotions have been tuned in such a way , that mothers look on these situations from their point of view and feel happy about it , and offspring like you look at it from their point of view and feel unhappy about it , and your emotions are the way the evolution has equipped you to deal with these problems . |
| 18 | I mean , look at it from his point of view . |
| 19 | Well , look at it from my point of view . |
| 20 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 21 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 22 | exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there |
| 23 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |
| 24 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 25 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 26 | In such matters it is the most obvious things which are the most important and which stare at you from under the nose without being perceived . |
| 27 | As you come back from Brouage towards St Jean-d'Angely — on the D18 via the canalside village of Pont-l'Abbe-d'Arnoult , with a lovely Romanesque church faade — a sign at the junction of the D122 points you to the chateau whose improbably perfect lake and gardens stare at you from posters throughout the region : La Roche Courbon . |
| 28 | The groups flanking the god should be transposed so that the Centaurs carry their victims outwards and the heroes strike at them from next to the protecting god . |
| 29 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
| 30 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |