Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] from the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Diamond Head was leaping at me from the right . |
| 2 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 3 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 4 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 5 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 6 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
| 7 | She stood looking at me from the end of the bed . |
| 8 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 9 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
| 10 | But I am looking at something from the previous century . |
| 11 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 12 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 13 | Looking at you from the other side of the desk I might feel you have misdiagnosed yourself . |
| 14 | Looking at it from the club 's point of view I can see how this ban arose in a situation like this . |
| 15 | Now we are looking at it from the point of view of anticipating a loss which will trigger the grief response . |
| 16 | Looking at it from the housewife 's point of view her phrasing of these questions would be : |
| 17 | Looking at it from the point of view revealed in their rhetoric , the pupils were not ignoring their teacher as such . |
| 18 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 19 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 20 | Eight years on Symphony Release 3 has just been launched and Janet Swift examines how it measures up to today 's standards — looking at it from the viewpoint of existing users and those who are contemplating buying new business software . |
| 21 | Maggie looked blankly at the face grinning at her from the queue , and as she pushed a cup of tea across the counter she said , ‘ You were saying ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He came at her from the front then ? ’ |
| 23 | An explosive snort came at him from the centre of the room behind him . |
| 24 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 25 | Mr Rogich says , unhelpfully : ‘ I look at everything from the historical point of view because I think that gives greater impact to the message . ’ |
| 26 | They look at everything from the point of view of the provider and their only discernible policy is that they are against privatization . |
| 27 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 28 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 29 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 30 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |