Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 13 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 14 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 21 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 22 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 23 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 24 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 25 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 26 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 27 | Then try to look at it as an artist would look at it , really analysing it . |
| 28 | You have to look at it as an heirloom and a thing of beauty . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To look at it on a comparable basis . |