Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] from a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 2 | Saunders was arrested later and told police he ‘ legged it ’ after someone shouted at him from a car . |
| 3 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 4 | Your finger will no longer be aligned with the picture — because you are looking at it from a slightly different direction ; your eyes are not in the same place . |
| 5 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 6 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 7 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 8 | What happens if one of them 's looking at it from a viewpoint and the other one 's looking at it from a viewpoint ? |
| 9 | Not now , not next year but in the next twenty years so there are a problem with schools , there are problems , I think , with changing leisure habits er people , the way that people take their leisure has changed over the last twenty years and not always have clubs , organizations and sailing schools taken account of that in , in their programme , especially with youngsters and I have to say I also believe there is apathy in some clubs and other organizations , not every club has an active youth sailing scheme and I believe that any club that does n't either must be extremely popular because of its er prices of beer or , or some other reason or it may not exist perhaps in twenty years ' time , so I think it 's an ext extremely important topic brought about by the maybe , without being melodramatic , some of the stuff that we 're reading in the papers about youngsters these days but looking at it from a purely selfish sailing point of view if we 're to get more youngsters into the sport even if we 're to hold our ground we 've got to make a big effort over , over this year and , and it 's important make sure that it runs on for future years . |
| 10 | Looking at it from a businessman 's point of view , it 's the obvious thing to do . |
| 11 | looking at it from a different point of view and measuring different things . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 14 | Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’ |
| 15 | okay I mean y y you can look at it from a point of view that Mao is a real revolutionary and that 's what he wants |
| 16 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 17 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 18 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 19 | Beside myself with rage , I crouched , shook my fist under his nose and yelled at him from a few inches ' range . |
| 20 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 21 | Rosalba imagined Tommaso as a bird : and saw his pale green eye staring at her from a flurry of golden feathers as his vivid wings beat . |
| 22 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 23 | Like steam coming at you from a cooking pot over a camp fire . |
| 24 | A small boy of about six came up to Jackson and stared at him from a distance of two feet before pulling a face and running away . |
| 25 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 26 | Then , on March 13th , he was tackled by two planes at once , firing at him from a range of ten yards . |
| 27 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 28 | Round the corner another old woman in her seventies awaited the departure of the year , huddled in bed for warmth , clad in layer upon layer of old nylon nightdress , woolly cardigan , matted flannel dressing-gown , gazing at an unsatisfactory black and white television flickering at her from a chair by the bed . |
| 29 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |