Example sentences of "at [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |
| 2 | She smiled at me as the lift doors opened , then mouthed a silent farewell and fluttered her fingers at me till the lift doors closed . |
| 3 | It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear . |
| 4 | Other people may keep talking at you as a means of reinforcing their relationship to you : ‘ I matter to you , so you must give me plenty of airtime . ’ |
| 5 | I think that this is best explained , not by looking at lots of particular theories , but by looking at one as an example of how the basic problem — how cumulative selection got its start — might be solved . |
| 6 | She laughs at herself as a girl again . |
| 7 | As she did so , the windscreen reflected the cloudy sky back at her as a white sheet . |
| 8 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 9 | Rachel stared wildly at her as an image of the gynae registrar at St Clare 's came into her mind — an image of a stocky , balding man approaching middle age ; then , as another thought struck her , she said , ‘ But … but … he was … ’ |
| 10 | It is quite wrong to look at him as a marginal or failed artist , a tragic case , like his country of Bengal , even though he himself sometimes seemed to see things this way . |
| 11 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 12 | What he did n't like was the way some of them looked at him as a potential John . |
| 13 | They 'd look at him as a pillar of respect , of authority , you see ? |
| 14 | Kragan knelt down in front of Adam and looked at him as a butcher would appraise a cut of meat . |
| 15 | She was not now looking at him as a child looked . |
| 16 | Hitler had talked of an offer ‘ in the name of reason ’ , and Halifax threw it back at him as a ‘ summons to capitulate to his will ’ . |
| 17 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
| 18 | She let go of the cabinet , coughing in the dust of ages that appeared to be lurking behind it , and smiled back at him as the February sun shone through the small window behind her , throwing into sharp relief the patches on the wall where her predecessor had hung posters , and the ingrained dirt on the flaking paintwork round the mean , narrow , metal window . |
| 19 | She smiled at him as the general hurriedly got dressed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The anger and resentment expressed at every level , from street vendor to middle-class intellectual , was almost entirely directed at Washington , not at him as an individual American . |
| 22 | As Jack goes on hunting , the little ones look at him as an expert . |
| 23 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |
| 24 | I mean , he had no idea about what possibilities there were for me and he just looked at it as a very , very dodgy profession to want to go into . |
| 25 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 26 | well I went down and had a look at it as a kid you know . |
| 27 | Do n't expect it to do all the fancy layout stuff that PageMaker can handle but look at it as a tool for creating automatic invoices , business forms , price lists and so on . |
| 28 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 29 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 30 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |