Example sentences of "at [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | It will make a lovely picture he yells at me above the crashing noise . |
2 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
3 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
4 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
5 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
6 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
7 | He looks at me for the first time . |
8 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
9 | ‘ Serendipitous , eh ? ’ he said , and leered at me through the artificial gloom , his rubber lips curling up . |
10 | Rubbing his glasses clean , he peered intently over at me through the thin rain . |
11 | ‘ Only stakin' 'is claim , ’ Granpa used to tell the customers as he pointed at me in the wooden box . |
12 | There she is , in the other photograph , guileless and fervent , leaning forward across her desk , philosophizing away at me from the broad steppe of her Slavic soul . |
13 | I was thinking it would be nice to spend some time travelling with someone else , to share the strain but , as we entered the darkness which had me constantly glancing up to check the shadow of my bag , my only companion was the bearded , dark-eyed twin who stared back at me from the occluded window . |
14 | It must have been there all the time , sitting motionless and staring straight at me from the far edge of the level area of the Grounds , but I had n't noticed it at first . |
15 | I love daytime television so when I saw Richard and Judy staring at me from the other channel I was quite pleased . |
16 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
17 | I could see I could see Li er Charlie and Pete looking at me from the other side of the room , Charlie smiled and I just did I just went like that , you know ? |
18 | As I did so I became aware of a youngish man with long hair looking at me from the pavemented walk on the Hammersmith side of the river . |
19 | ‘ Two men sprang out at me from the little park . |
20 | ‘ That when I ‘ dared ’ to so compel you , you flew out at me like the spirited filly you are under that demure exterior , ’ stated her ladyship with a quizzing look . |
21 | From time to time Maggie saw Felipe glance at them through the rear-view mirror . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
24 | But I can take some of these back to the office and have a look at them under the funny lights — ultra-violet , infra-red — to see if anything shows up . |
25 | Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues , who seem always to be perceiving another dimension , where everything is statues . |
26 | He turned towards the two men , smiled at them for the first time . |
27 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
28 | The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |