Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Telephone sales teams daily insult the intelligence of thousands of potential customers , as they read at them from a prepared sales script . |
| 2 | A voice boomed at her from a small door at the side of the stage . |
| 3 | He grinned at her from a toothless mouth . |
| 4 | All the time with other people she was acting , confident and charming ; backstage alone , the pain in her eyes glared at her from a bright-lit make-up mirror , weeping at the tawdriness of it all , scorning costume and plot and witty script . |
| 5 | A pink carnation smirked at her from a transparent vase on the table . |
| 6 | He looked extremely unhealthy ; the anxious eyes of a child peered at her from a white mask . |
| 7 | They stopped and looked at him from a little distance . |
| 8 | A large framed photograph of Joe Louis in fighting stance looked menacingly down at him from a supporting beam as he walked through the saloon bar doorway . |
| 9 | Angie Bowie : ‘ I never realized and had never been involved in who did what , but I suppose that amounts to , if one wants to look at it from Ken 's point of view , being the fly in the ointment , or of one wants to look at it from a real point of view as , in terms of property settlement and management , that I was being David 's manager at that particular time , because it was possible for me to advise him to do something about the things that really troubled him artistically . |
| 10 | Well let's have a look at it from a simplistic point of view , Okay . |
| 11 | Let's look at it from a different angle ; if you could change anything about your life , what would you change ? ’ |
| 12 | There are two distinct types of variation in the semantic contribution that a word form makes to different sentences — or , to look at it from a different point of view , two ways in which the sentential context of a word form may affect its semantic contribution to the sentence . |
| 13 | looking at it from a different point of view and measuring different things . |