Example sentences of "at [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage , having read through a brief overview of generic computer hardware and boolean algebra as well as the author 's personal views on how various chemists approach computers and the differences between ‘ computational ’ and ‘ semantic ’ programs , I am left wondering at whom this book is aimed . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not having her next door peering at me all day . ’ |
| 3 | Pushing her at me that way . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't look at me that way , ’ she said , ‘ as if I 'd suddenly become senile . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The arrangements are not yet concluded , you see , and — Why do you look at me that way , signorina ? |
| 6 | She went on , ‘ Did you see the way he looked at me that time ? |
| 7 | ‘ I used ter sit at me front door when the weavver was good , an' when it was cold I used ter lay in bed till dinner-time . |
| 8 | That the other person in Jack 's life , Mrs Moore , was also profoundly lonely is made clear by a generous , and at me same time comically self-revealing , letter which she wrote to Warnie on 29 October . |
| 9 | ’ You know , ’ she said , ’ I can tell two things from the way everybody looks at me this morning . |
| 10 | ‘ When you were shouting at me last night I realised , perhaps for the first time , just exactly what you 'd gone through all your life . |
| 11 | Alright , you had your moan at me last time Melvin the pure fact that I had n't put the money in |
| 12 | Just toss one of those at me any time I snore and I 'll turn on my side and shut up . |
| 13 | Making hats for a living and looking at them all day long has mellowed her taste somewhat . |
| 14 | They climbed on the furniture , threw toys around , never did as they were told , and Mary felt that she was screaming at them all day to be quiet and leave her alone . |
| 15 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 16 | Nevertheless Cara smiled at them that morning , as she smiled at the frail , clerical-looking gentleman who was both their saviour and their torment , the pawnbroker who held his court on one corner of St Jude 's Passage , the other corner housing the red-headed madam of the fringed shawl who did not emerge from behind her green shutters so early in the day . |
| 17 | A second swarm of enemies attacked Arthur 's skin and he swore at them blue murder . |
| 18 | I mean , look at them next door , twelve of the buggers ! |
| 19 | All the reels retail at £49.95 : have a look at them next time you 're in a tackle shop — if there 's not one to suit , you 'll never be satisfied . |
| 20 | Looking at them next stage , distribution centre then are we ? |
| 21 | The crowd were getting at them last night . |
| 22 | He says slight seconds , well I looked at them last night and there 's , I ca n't see nowt wrong with them . |
| 23 | Mr Palomar , the observer , is a nervous man , living ‘ in a frenzied and congested world ’ ( Calvino 1986 : 4 ) : congested not only with other humans like himself , crowding preferably into places which seem to reflect back at them mute incomprehension of their triumphant ubiquity ( the zoo , the garden of rocks and sand of the Ryoanji of Kyoto ) , but criss-crossed furthermore with signals and signs , simultaneously requiring and resisting interpretation . |
| 24 | And told me of the fraternising between British and German troops on Christmas day in the trenches , and I could n't understand at first how you could shoot at someone all week , then make friends with them for one day , knowing you would try and kill each other again the next . |
| 25 | Good to see the ‘ pool comin right back at em last night after the scum went 3 up in about 25 minutes . |
| 26 | ‘ Waiting down below for us , I should n't wonder — wanting us to get a move on so ‘ s 'e can keep 'is hand in at 'is old trade ! |
| 27 | St John , who I had never heard laugh before , actually laughed out loud at my shocked face . |
| 28 | I am much more concerned at my apparent lack of ability to convey what I mean . |
| 29 | He would nod in reply , and I would creep away , sniggering at my tiny cruelty , pleased that I was not quite such a nice young man as he might have imagined . |
| 30 | After presenting me with a bag of tomatoes , she glanced at my mangled leg and made the pronouncement . |