Example sentences of "[verb] at [art] [noun] [Wh pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not know at the time who had commissioned the poll , but I learned afterwards that it was the Conservative party . |
| 2 | At that point in his life , he would sit at the door of a club when he was playing and he would glare at the people who came in . |
| 3 | However , we have looked at the men who operate outside the Premier 's direct influence , at the men whose phone calls no one ever puts on hold . |
| 4 | I once specially asked for him to be there and then demanded to know at the rehearsal who was this man sitting with the flutes . |
| 5 | Joolz was cautioned by the police for swearing at a heckler who swore at her . |
| 6 | The obsessive and lightweight dismissals in Record Mirror hinted at a Morrissey who was beginning to live within his own self appraisal . |
| 7 | Arghatun was shouting at the warriors who were grouped around the clearing , and twenty or so ran at once to one of the carts and pulled out a mass of folded fabric . |
| 8 | You are looking at a woman who has survived Europe , South America and East Africa — entirely without a maid . |
| 9 | I sat in a corner looking at the Dutchmen who smiled surreptitiously from the platform . |
| 10 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 11 | He was leaning against the casualty department door leering at the nurse who was dabbing gently at the three parallel scratches on Martin 's face . |
| 12 | ‘ Look at the players who have come through and learned to compete at the highest level ’ , the captain said before citing Wright , Carl Hogg and the 20-year-old Kenny Logan , all new caps . |
| 13 | Look at the people who are taking part in a revolt . |
| 14 | If you look at the people who went in for the Olympic Games , right up to the Second World War , erm you would call them amateurs . |
| 15 | Look at the men who got killed in the Dardanelles because of him . ’ |
| 16 | And er really when you sort of l look at the children who were born during the war and were brought up during the war , they 're all pretty strong and healthy . |
| 17 | Look at the player who joned Leeds , to the one that left for scum . |
| 18 | A set of 3-D viewing glasses will be bound into magazines , so that readers can look at a waiter who appears to be offering them a tray of cocktails . |
| 19 | He did not look at the woman who passed him in the hallway . |
| 20 | Startled , George turned his head to stare at a woman who was standing up somewhere in the middle of the tight-packed rows of the audience . |
| 21 | Silence spread slowly across the supper tables as the hundreds of guests turned to stare at the Rifleman who , in turn , searched the supper tables for a particular person . |
| 22 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 23 | erm er portraits of , er men you have to take i it that erm we could argue Charlotte Bronte was very critical of the men she knew and , the men she thought she might know , and did n't erm , you have to look at the women who feed into the making of them |
| 24 | I would like to look at the people who are being cared for , the people that we 're talking about , are the elderly , quite often these people have lived through two world wars and given up their young married life , they have brought up their children through the bleak days of the general strike , is it right that these people have to suffer the indignity of charity hand-outs ? |
| 25 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 26 | As Marianne walked to the door , she turned away , unable to look at the woman who 'd brought her world crashing about her ears like a fragile house of cards . |
| 27 | Leif frowned at the toddler who was happily clutching at the steering-wheel . |
| 28 | It is true that we are more enlightened than we were ; there is a public which has learnt to smile at the reviewer who declares that a line ‘ will not scan ’ , or that it contains a ‘ trochee ’ where it should have had an ‘ iamb ’ , without considering whether it was ever intended to ‘ scan ’ , or whether there is anything in English verse which can be treated as the absolute equivalent of a Greek or Latin trochee . |
| 29 | I used to smile at the people who stopped me in the street , not knowing what they wanted at first , until I discovered that there were actually beggars in London . |
| 30 | There are also about 65 staff inspectors based at the DES who have national responsibilities for particular areas of the curriculum or aspects of education , such as maths teaching or special educational needs . |