Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your only chance is to pull at him from the side , which may steer him away from the refuge he seeks . |
| 2 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 3 | George turned to Catherine , kissed her hands and seemed content to stare at her for the rest of the night if not for the rest of his life : Mary bowed her head a little and Hope looked away , sipped at his claret , could do no more . |
| 4 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 5 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 6 | Sudden silence struck the voices downstairs and , as Theda reached the railings and leaned over them , she saw his handsome features turned up to stare at her from the bottom of the stairs . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 8 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 9 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 10 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 11 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 14 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 15 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
| 16 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 17 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 18 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 19 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 20 | Having established the ICAEW 's position in the listed market , we decided to extend our work to look at which of the bodies regulated the auditors of large unlisted organisations . |
| 21 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 22 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 23 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 24 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 25 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 26 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 27 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 28 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
| 29 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 30 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |