Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'll look at them with you later , but you ca n't look at them by yourself . |
2 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
3 | She 's not in pain sitting in the foyer so what I 've said is you 'll look at her at break time . |
4 | He thinks we 'll look at it in a different light . |
5 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
6 | Erm well yours is different so we 'll look at yours in a minute . |
7 | Come and , he might look at me for something . |
8 | Thus were the Cornish giants vanquished and the pile of stones erected ‘ … that men might wonder at it for evermore ’ . |
9 | You 'd be forever wondering what might come at you from the shadows . |
10 | You might get at it without the er where 's the instruction ? |
11 | Let's look at it as refreshment before the battle . ’ |
12 | Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’ |
13 | Indeed on being presented with a picture , pupils may look at it for only a very short time and give only the most cursory replies when questioned about various features . |
14 | Despite much rebuilding and the need for dogged perseverance by Holroyd Smith and his supporters , his conduit line although equipped with primitive electrical apparatus , handled everything Blackpool 's crowds and the sea could throw at it until 1899 , when it was converted to the cheaper overhead line method now used . |
15 | They 'd laugh at you from here to Bergen . |
16 | She felt she could gaze at him for ever . |
17 | ‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’ |
18 | The party had become a turning-point in many ways ; now , weeks later , she could look at it with a certain amount of dispassion , view her life over the past few months with a critical eye . |
19 | They 'd look at me in surprise , so enthralled had they been . |
20 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
21 | You could poke at it with a screwdriver or a piece of wire and wipe it with a piece of rag . |
22 | I 'd stare at them for hours . |
23 | There was a girl called Carmen , she was the queen Reject , she just let me hang around with them so she could sneer at me for being a moony . |
24 | I wish he 'd smile at me like that , Anne thought . |
25 | He used to niggle at me for being a capitalist farmer and I got at him for being an unemployed commie . |
26 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
27 | I used to look at them in awe , they were so generous and open There will be more American memorabilia in the summer when the new entrance ios officially opened … and the date for that , July 4 , American Independence Day . |
28 | ( ’ The people who sold the soap for us want to replenish their supply ’ came the typically slippery message to McFarlane ; his secretary described how , when such messages came , he would look at her with a puzzled expression . ) |
29 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
30 | It is true that , characteristically , he was about to cadge a lift ; but lift or no lift , most elevated academics of those ( and these ) days when accosted by some unknown student would look at him as if he were something deposited on the pavement in contravention of the local by laws . |