Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] [art] " 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 | Mr. Mendez seemed to stare at him for a While , thinking or just looking . |
| 4 | Wilcox continued to stare at her through a cloud of smoke . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | People turned to stare at her in the street . |
| 7 | Silas stood still to stare at her in the dim light . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Yes , ’ she admitted softly as she continued to stare at herself in the full-length mirror . |
| 10 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Vernon , 18 , hero of non-League Bath City 's FA Cup win over Cardiff , is on trial with Saints and manager Ian Branfoot wants to look at him in a reserve game . |
| 13 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 14 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 15 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 19 | There is no doubt that some problems can be solved with ease if only we can get to look at them in a different way . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 22 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 23 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 24 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 27 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 28 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 29 | I ca n't bear to look at myself in a mirror : I know I look a mess most of the time . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |