Example sentences of "[to-vb] at [pers pn] [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 | 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 . |
| 8 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 9 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 10 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 16 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 17 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 18 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Lambs rubbed against the fence adjacent to Pete and cows seemed to smile at him across the farmyard . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ready to thrust at her inside the door . |
| 30 | I was to get at 'er in the bedroom , 'e said . |