Example sentences of "[be] [verb] at [pers pn] as " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | So it 's not , you 're looking at it as two . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Everybody will be looking at them as scabs , wherever they go . |
| 6 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 7 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 8 | And as she stared , there was interposed on the fair skin face of a man , a thin man , and he was leering at her as if in triumph , as he would do if he were to get hold of this unusual-looking child , for he 'd make a pretty penny out of her , no matter what channel he sent her along , his nursery , the street , or the boat . |
| 9 | He 'd got up , and he was looking at me as if to say Coming ? supposing he was the kind of normal person who said that kind of thing . |
| 10 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 11 | But she was looking at me as if we were long-lost friends . |
| 12 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 13 | She had just had the most beautiful experience of her whole life and Roman was looking at her as if she had cheated him . |
| 14 | But then she realised that the customer in question was looking at her as if he could read her thoughts — and found them highly amusing . |
| 15 | Her prosecutor was looking at her as if she 'd just crawled from under a stone . |
| 16 | He was looking at her as if he was wondering , will she be all right ? |
| 17 | There was something that seemed very easy for lots of these people , and I was looking at it as somebody who did n't feel quite so easy about what they were doing . |
| 18 | Mandeville was staring at me as if trying to read my thoughts . |
| 19 | Joe followed his mother into the room , and they stood looking at Martin , who had his back to the empty grate now and was staring at them as if he was n't seeing them . |
| 20 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |