Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] [prep] an " in BNC.

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1 He 's not shouting at you for the sake of it — he 's shouting at you in an effort to improve you .
2 The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens .
3 They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect .
4 Ellen was looking at him with an expression he had never seen before .
5 He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer .
6 I think that this is best explained , not by looking at lots of particular theories , but by looking at one as an example of how the basic problem — how cumulative selection got its start — might be solved .
7 He was looking at her with an icy contempt .
8 Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day .
9 I think one is largely on judging people in the hands of the media , looking at it from an ordinary party member I think it 's the air he gives , whether it 's an air of confidence competence and perhaps and air of confidence , the way he handles himself in the House of Commons , the things that he actually says , because within that time you 're not able , in fact , to have achieved much erm parliamentary wise , one very much has to judge a person by what he has .
10 Er , Vicky says you are awful going er , I said that 's what they do , they grunt at me like an animal I grunt back at them .
11 As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert .
12 You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring
13 He has to look at everything from an international perspective .
14 Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it .
15 You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty .
16 These phenomena can not be used as a warning of incipient fracture because , to observe the effects , it is necessary to cut thin sections of the stressed part and to look at it in an optical microscope .
17 Then , with sound like a rippling machine gun , arms outstretched and a face-splitting smile , you speed spectacularly towards the audience , a different light flashing magically as your heels lightly clip each step.The effect is stunning , like somebody racing at you on an escalator only much , much better .
18 The cheap TV rocked on its legs as the man grabbed at it in an over-eager embrace , and Joe turned to the woman on the bed .
19 The words were flung at her like an accusation of felony .
20 Albert grinned at her in an indulgent , knowing way and it made her angry .
21 They grinned at her in an easy , friendly way and she returned their smiles .
22 She glanced at me in an odd way .
23 and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was .
24 Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour .
25 ‘ We have to think ahead now , ’ Cameron began , but Donald was staring at him like an enemy .
26 ‘ London , ’ he told her , staring at her with an air of triumph .
27 Once or twice I caught the N.C.O. staring at me with an expression of hate and disgust but he never maintained it when I stared back , and would look suddenly out of the window or at the papers in the portfolio he was carrying .
28 On the contrary , she was staring at me with an almost manic intensity .
29 She 's still staring at me like an animal .
30 But she snapped , ‘ I 'm not tired , I 'm not , ’ glaring at him like an enemy , and he felt a sour weariness at the prospect of the long , white night ahead of them .
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