Example sentences of "[vb base] at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 32 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 33 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 34 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 35 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 36 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 39 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 40 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 41 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |
| 42 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 43 | Sometimes the past may be a greased pig ; sometimes a bear in its den ; and sometimes merely the flash of a parrot , two mocking eyes that spark at you from the forest . |
| 44 | Sometimes she would stand in front of Sarah and stare at her in the most curious way , saying nothing . |
| 45 | and others can , you know sit and stare at it for an hour still would n't know who it was . |
| 46 | BELVILLE : I take her to an artful young baggage and had I a young handsome butler or steward she 'd soon make her market of one of them and snap at him for a husband . |
| 47 | ‘ Men sometimes whistle at me in the street and it does n't bother me a bit . |
| 48 | They 're all being so ridiculously polite that you begin to consider the option of using ‘ fuck off ’ as your opening line to these people who nod and bow and smile at you despite the fact that they are merely passing by . |
| 49 | Go at it with a fast engine |
| 50 | And some , as it meant , if that , if they had done that you actually have to put your foot in their sto , chest , or their stomach and push them away from you , and swim around and come at them from the back . |
| 51 | My arm was tingling , like it 's supposed to do when the Neptunians come at you through the undergrowth , foetal implants in hand . |