Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I tried to lunge at them with my talons but crows are clever , crows can judge distance to the fraction of a talon . |
2 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
3 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
4 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
5 | I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king |
6 | So I want to look at them at dinner time and share them with you this afternoon . |
7 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
8 | Umm I think a big one here , cos I want to look at it from in there . |
9 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
10 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
11 | I tried to smile at him through my tears , but I realized it had n't turned out very well , so I squeezed his hand which I was holding . |
12 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
13 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
14 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
15 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
16 | ‘ Whenever I stand in the middle of a big field , ’ she said , ‘ I expect some harpy to come flying at me with a hockey stick . |
17 | Usually if he calls me , he wants to shout at me about something . |
18 | It had been one of those deep , deep sleeps ; the kind when you do n't know a thing until your mum starts yelling at you for the umpteenth time that you 're going to be late for school if you do n't get up . |
19 | I had photographs of Anne , naturally , and I 'd stared at them for a whole year , but they were n't very good . |
20 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
21 | They 'd looked at it on Sunday . |
22 | The dancers , from what Lucy had seen , were all pretty good in their way ; she 'd even begun to develop a liking for Maurice , who 'd winked at her in the corridor earlier . |
23 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
24 | And then , ‘ Oh , eat your lunch and stop looking at me with those great spaniel eyes . |
25 | Stop looking at me like that . |
26 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
27 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
28 | The black glittering eyes seemed to tear at her like scissors . |
29 | ‘ I know , ’ he said , and seemed to look at her as if to gauge how love looked in a person 's eyes . |
30 | Holly seemed to look at him as if the matter of a fire that destroyed the office of the Commandant was neither of occasion nor note . |