Example sentences of "[verb] at [pers pn] as [art] " in BNC.
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1 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
2 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
3 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
4 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
5 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
6 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
7 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
8 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
9 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
10 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
11 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
12 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |
13 | Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's |
14 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
15 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
16 | You 've got ta look at it as an ongoing er on an ongoing problem but erm you , you could 've perhaps have gone into it a little bit more then just to find out erm there was also a mention of , of an income rise in the spring |
17 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
18 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
19 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
20 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
21 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
22 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
23 | The Hamleys bag sat on the dressing table at the end of his room , the one clean , bright item in the place , and Joe lay back on the bed and stared at it as the daylight outside gave way to the evening . |
24 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
25 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
26 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
27 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
28 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
29 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
30 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |