Example sentences of "[verb] at [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When I peered at myself in the mirror I screamed . |
| 3 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 4 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 6 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 8 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
| 9 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 10 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 11 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 12 | I want to try and stop shouting at you in the morning so I 'm going to put out your clothes for you to get dressed . |
| 13 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 14 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 15 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 16 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 17 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 18 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |
| 19 | we argued there that erm scale of migration was not necessary to be contained within Leeds and Bradford , to promote regeneration because we 're s we 're now , we have now exhausted all our brown field sites to the extent that we 've had to take land out of our greenbelt , but there we were looking at something in the order of four thousand dwellings in three dris districts , spread over fifteen years , and we might reasonably assume that they 'd come forward in a dispersed manner on a site by site basis er and be relatively small scale , certainly we would be looking at the local plans which flow from this alteration to make sure that will be the case , now a new settlement 's a completely different animal , you would have to come forward quickly otherwise it would not be regarded as a success , it would it would need wide publicity , perhaps across the whole region , maybe even beyond , it would be a a major attraction to anybody thinking of moving house er from Leeds to a a location which would be accessible to them to retain their employment in Leeds , so I think we were talking about two different things entirely , more than that Mr Brighton 's su suggested that fifteen hundred would not be an adequate scale , it would have to be , I think two thousand five hundred was his figure , er Mr Timothy 's suggested th the same sort of thinking , and Mr Brook to , that the the settlement would have to get bigger , erm which only compounds our problem , any any settlement which grew larger and larger and inevitably would contain more employment as well as housing would become more of a threat to the regeneration of Leeds and , perhaps to a lesser extent Bradford , and it 's on |
| 20 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 21 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 22 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 23 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 24 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 25 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 26 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 27 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 28 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 29 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 30 | Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that her eyes were swollen and her face blotchy . |