Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [prep] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 2 | She kept pushing at it with all those millions of invisible little arms and hands that were reaching out from her eyes , feeling the power that was flashing straight from the two little black dots in the very centres of her eyeballs . |
| 3 | He was not looking at me at all . |
| 4 | He was n't looking at her at all when he said this . |
| 5 | Sometimes the pitfalls in not looking at it from all these angles become painfully clear . |
| 6 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 7 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 8 | I did n't look at her at all , just watched the two loafers . |
| 9 | After that , he did n't look at her at all . |
| 10 | He picked up the cases and she took their hand-cases and they walked home , passing three separate black people who looked at them with silent hostility and two elderly white women who did not look at them at all . |
| 11 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
| 12 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 13 | In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all . |
| 14 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 15 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 16 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 17 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 18 | In and out , on and off , they 're coming at us from all sides . |
| 19 | Simplicity , however — at least the sort that scores in argument or fiction — can be a highly achieved state of mind , ‘ costing not less than everything ’ , and only highly complex beings arrive at it at all , or need to seek it out . |
| 20 | Ruth looked at her after all . |
| 21 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 22 | Automatically dissecting the problem into the code of coloured balls and prismatic chains that was the symbology of her interface , Chesarynth looked at it from all angles . |
| 23 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 24 | And she realized that the anger had not been directed at her at all . |
| 25 | I handed her the drink and she smiled at me with all her splendid teeth and said , " Thank you . |
| 26 | They kept nagging at him about all that space he had and how she 'd got nowhere and her dad would n't have her back and her with a baby inside her . |
| 27 | ‘ Come and say goodbye , ’ he urged , tugging at her with all his might . |
| 28 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |
| 29 | Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men , since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward . |
| 30 | ‘ Whatever you do , work at it with all your heart , as working for the Lord , not for men ’ ( Col. 3:23 ) . |