Example sentences of "at [pers pn] [adv] [adv] as " in BNC.
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1 | I propose to devote a whole chapter to so-called ‘ association copies ’ , partly for the selfish reason that I am myself devoted to them and partly because , looking at them as objectively as I can , they seem to me to offer one of the most satisfying branches of book-collecting , especially to anyone with the slightest sense of history . |
2 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
3 | With a shout , I ran at them as hard as I could . |
4 | I put my tongue out at them as far as it would go . |
5 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
6 | They stopped just beyond the steps of the food office and , all the irritation seeming to flow from him , he looked at her meekly now as he said , ‘ I may not see you again for weeks . |
7 | He glanced up at her almost respectfully as he poured himself some tea . |
8 | He released her , his fingers still loosely in the escaped strands of her hair , staring at her as blankly as if she were some phantom being from another incarnation , a mythical seductress beamed unexpectedly into the passenger seat of his car . |
9 | But she seemed to have got over her momentary embarrassment , so he smiled at her as warmly as he could , and she went away to eat her solitary lunch in the small bed-sitting-room alongside the nursery , which was the only part of the Unit that was n't monitored with cameras and tape recorders . |
10 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
11 | If it is to save us , we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death . |
12 | Back with his own cast , he was determined to keep them at it as long as possible , fulfilling his own need for manic activity . |