Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] 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 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 5 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 6 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 10 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 11 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 12 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
| 18 | I seem to remember looking at it in the other one . |
| 19 | that great black bull , grinning at him in the washroom afterwards as , side by side , they washed their hands . |
| 20 | She exploded at me in the hospital . |
| 21 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
| 22 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 23 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 24 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 25 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 26 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 27 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 28 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 29 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 30 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |