Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] at the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I pout at the pouting mackerel |
| 2 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 3 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 4 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 5 | During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves . |
| 6 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 7 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 8 | Quickly , I look at the real Philip . |
| 9 | I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah . |
| 10 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 11 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 12 | I look at the knackered tubes . |
| 13 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 14 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 15 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 16 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 17 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 19 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 20 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |
| 21 | I glance at the front door : no one showing yet . |
| 22 | I glance at the wrought-iron gate : it 's a long way off . |
| 23 | ‘ Ca n't you give up this living ? ’ she asks , and I stare at the invisible ceiling . |
| 24 | I stare at the muddied , warped little card sealed in a deal-sized plastic bag , recognising my own writing and feeling my mouth go even drier than it already is and I can only gibber something about , Well , it looks like my writing but , I mean , and anyway , somebody , anybody could have taken that , I mean … but they just look quietly pleased and the questions go on . |
| 25 | I smile at the watching people and say she is always this way at bedtime . |
| 26 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 27 | I puzzle at the local economy , the commerce , the apologetic arrangements of the ignored , of the cooled city . |
| 28 | ‘ If I play at the Royal Albert Hall , there may be 3,000 people there , but it 's still one-to-one because that 's the way I operate . |
| 29 | I work at the big house taking Oreste with me it is kitchen work and not difficult and gives me extra . |
| 30 | ‘ I hate publicity , ’ you squeal at the hastily-arranged photocall . |