Example sentences of "[verb] at a piece of " in BNC.
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| 1 | His foot slipped and he grasped at a piece of jutting tile and dragged himself back to safety . |
| 2 | Dyson broke off in mid-explanation , frowning at a piece of copy-paper he had taken out of a little brown envelope marked ‘ J. Dyson Esqre . ’ |
| 3 | She nibbled at a piece of horseradish . |
| 4 | She did n't look at him now , but stared at her plate , and nibbled at a piece of fresh bread as a way of avoiding conversation . |
| 5 | I first got the idea of the crocheted styles after looking at a piece of fabric and thinking : ‘ I could do that with hair . ’ |
| 6 | Looking at a piece of work on the board Mrs Singh said she wanted her son to write like that . |
| 7 | As competent users of English , it is not easy for us , when looking at a piece of discourse which we understand , to imagine how it appears to the language learner . |
| 8 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 9 | He will look at a piece of equipment to try to detect signs which indicate what is wrong . |
| 10 | She glanced briefly at Twoflower , as one might look at a piece of furniture , then glared down at the man on the bed . |
| 11 | He glanced at a piece of paper . |
| 12 | She glanced at a piece of paper . |
| 13 | He looked at a piece of paper in his left hand . |