Example sentences of "look at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 2 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 3 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 4 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 5 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 6 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 8 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 9 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 10 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 11 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 12 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 13 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 14 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 15 | Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look . |
| 16 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 17 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 18 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 19 | She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion . |
| 20 | ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges . |
| 21 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 22 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 23 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 24 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 25 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 26 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 27 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 28 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 30 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |