Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Chair , I think when we come to the capital programme you will be proposing that the P A G advise you and the Director in terms of producing a package which meets those guidelines , erm , and given the opportunity to look at them in some detail . |
| 2 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 3 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 4 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 5 | He must , to look at her like that . |
| 6 | So why , exactly , he now found himself wondering , had he come out to look at her like this ? |
| 7 | In fact he had not bothered to look at me at all . |
| 8 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 9 | ‘ There 's no need to look at me like that , Luke , ’ she said unevenly . |
| 10 | But I 'm wondering what indications you have that men are prepared to look at themselves in this light . |
| 11 | ‘ I want to look at you without any clothes on , ’ she said suddenly as she watched him suck his chocolate . |
| 12 | Strange , thought Bramble , that such an apparently dithery old lady should be able to look at you like that . |
| 13 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 14 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
| 15 | Well I think it 's not helpful to look at it with such stark divisions , I think everybody 's clear |
| 16 | To look at it from that point of view . |
| 17 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 18 | Well I just think it 's not helpful to look at it in those terms , you do n't actually , if you pick |
| 19 | We 've got to look at it in those terms , and so it is not necessary in my submission for anyone to prove at the moment there is at least five thousand dwellings short , erm that that is something which ought to be considered over a much longer time period . |
| 20 | You did n't have to glare at me like that . ’ |
| 21 | Mrs Lirriper enchanted by the city : ‘ … it 's town and country both in one , and carved stone and long streets of high houses and gardens and fountains and statues and trees and gold … and everybody seeming to play at everything in this world ’ , CS 17 . |
| 22 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 23 | but I realised that big weight losses often happen to very overweight people at the beginning of their diets , so I did n't expect to continue at anything like that pace . |