Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 32 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 33 | as if in response to his cursing , the wild night struck back at him , flaring a double blow of brilliant whiteness that seemed to tear at him through the windows . |
| 34 | The dog stopped to sniff at something in the grass , then squatted , urinating . |
| 35 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 36 | ‘ Steady on there , ’ her companion said and as she looked round to smile at him in the fragmented night-sun that was the wheel she saw Gabriel working at the barbecue . |
| 37 | It was an arm 's length away and raising its head to hook at him with the horn that was already dark with his father 's blood when he discharged his second barrel . |
| 38 | Nor , again , would local authorities be prevented from continuing to build at something like the present rate — though ( as will presently be shown ) for different purposes . |
| 39 | ready to thrust at her inside the door . |
| 40 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |
| 41 | Only when he saw the two girls actually standing up to peer at him past the curtains of Healy 's window did he show any reaction . |
| 42 | Vitor said , climbing out to frown at her across the bonnet . |
| 43 | When she saw him approaching , she lowered her gaze to the canvas before her and began to dab at it with the brush . |