Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gets very angry with him , and shouts at him a great deal . |
| 2 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 3 | ‘ Just imagine him standing by the side of you , with his hands crossed before him in a Miss Mollyish style , his intended bow half a courtsey , his fat arms and legs assisting , as in duty bound ; his side glances at you every ten seconds , while he softly , sweetly and insinuatingly informs you — that he has made the arts his peculiar study for the last eight years , and that he flatters himself , by his unremitting study he has greatly contributed to their improvement ; that he came to Ambleside for that purpose ( 't is a great big lie — he came solely to get a living for himself and family , but he is too proud to acknowledge this ) and hopes that the time has been employed with equal advantage to the arts and to himself . ’ |
| 4 | His right eye , which he had hardly noticed until Dr McNab had looked at it a little while earlier , had begun to throb painfully , and at the same time he felt feverish and nauseated , though perhaps it was only on account of the fetid atmosphere and the stench of urine . |
| 5 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 6 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 7 | As he dismounted he looked at me over the saddle and there Was that tell-nothing expression , looking at me no different than the Way he had looked at Lamarr Dean the moment before he broke a Whisky glass against his mouth . |
| 8 | I caught Cam looking at me the other day . |
| 9 | Looking at it a different way , having decided not to attempt to save China by its efforts , there was only a faint hope that the US could save Vietnam by its example — as a successful democracy . |
| 10 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 11 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 12 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 13 | If you look at it every ten minutes you notice it 's |
| 14 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 15 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 16 | But — ’ and here she sighed , ‘ Lily darling , I could look and look at him the whole day … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 18 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 19 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 20 | His extraordinary eyes he veiled with lowered lids and humility , and only the satirical curve of his long lips , accentuated by those twin russet flames that forked upwards through his short black beard , caused the chamberlain who admitted him to look at him a second time . |
| 21 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 22 | She stared at him a long while , then shrugged . |
| 23 | Fran stared at him a puzzled frown marring her smooth brow . |
| 24 | I stared at it a long time . |
| 25 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 26 | The broken sails of the old windmill stood out in silhouette against the sky like a scarecrow 's arms , and as she looked at them a sudden wonderful idea flashed into Cheryl 's mind . |
| 27 | I looked at him a long time , and the smile went away . |
| 28 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 29 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |
| 30 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |