Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes I bat at him from under the sheet , a cross between a pat and a push . |
| 2 | But I take my immediate clue from the American critic , Norman Holland : ‘ unity is to the text as identity is to a person ; or you could say , identity is the unity I find in a person when I look at him as if he were a text . ’ |
| 3 | I look at him with about the dirtiest look I can muster . |
| 4 | These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Yet the last thing on my mind is business when I look at you in that witchy little dress ! ’ |
| 7 | I look at it for a moment , tracing out my journey from Westminster . |
| 8 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
| 9 | It 's good , but I look at it like … did you see the movie ‘ Road Warrior ’ ? ' |
| 10 | I stare at it in hatred . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ And you sneer at me about honour , sir ? |
| 13 | You 're very beautiful , very provocative , when you look at me with those flirting eyes . ’ |
| 14 | You look at me in a way that is familiar . |
| 15 | Every time you look at me like that it just reminds me that I 'm cheating you , short-changing you . |
| 16 | Can I ask when we deal with the others that you look at them in that light . |
| 17 | The other day , they 're dirty , they had n't been washed they 're dirty when you look at them in daylight . |
| 18 | Which , when you look at it into time and money , yes we pay forty pence flat a parcel but the girls can go out , once they , once they know their area , they know the roads and they know where they are they can go out and probably do about twenty parcels an hour . |
| 19 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |
| 20 | It is no good insisting that , so long as you look at it with your eyes closed , a pig 's ear is a silk purse after all . |
| 21 | So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot . |
| 22 | If we , if we decide what it is we want to look at and there is a consensus on that and then you look at it over a period of time and see , and see what 's revealed by it . |
| 23 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
| 24 | If you look at it within that context , these cadenzas by Leppard are rather conventional . |
| 25 | If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake . |
| 26 | Is that really so bad when you look at it in perspective ? |
| 27 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 28 | But , when you look at it in that context it becomes very much erm , part of your life , and it takes an awful lot to break that habit and there 's no help . |
| 29 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 30 | which make it easier for you to stop and a lot of people do n't have the choice to stop , if you look at it in that sense . |