Example sentences of "at [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I caught Cam looking at me the other day . |
| 2 | He made another pass at me the other day . " |
| 3 | ‘ That baby there kicked out at me the other day . |
| 4 | As he opens the door the lid snaps up and as he looks at me the social dimension locks me in its perspective . |
| 5 | was looking at them the other day and they 're really brilliant . |
| 6 | They might look at you the wrong way , say something that annoys you . |
| 7 | Jane continued her career — if you can dignify it with such a name — on Vogue , where the personnel manager fiercely shot at her the rhetorical question : ‘ You 've got a private income , of course ? ’ |
| 8 | It 's hopelessly confusing to a child if you laugh at her behaviour one day , but shout at her the next for the same trick . |
| 9 | I had a go at him the other week using a fucking hire car ! |
| 10 | The attack in the forest was attempted murder and he now drew the same conclusion about the dagger thrown at him the previous day . |
| 11 | The incident leading to the court case had been sparked by a beer bottle being thrown at him the previous night . |
| 12 | But — ’ and here she sighed , ‘ Lily darling , I could look and look at him the whole day … ’ |
| 13 | Cos if you do anything you doing you must do it , go at it the right way and stick to it , ai n't it . |
| 14 | ‘ No , look at it the other way . |
| 15 | Okay now looking at it the other way , you see we we had those points but we do n't know what happens over here . |
| 16 | ‘ You could look at it the other way , I suppose , ’ replied the radiant Morse . |
| 17 | Look at it the other way … at least we ARE beating the lower teams something a lot of ‘ mid-table ’ sides fing difficult ( as do some top of the table sides at times — remember Scum vs West Ham : ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) . |
| 18 | I looked at it the other day and I thought I must remember to ask . |
| 19 | I was looking at it the other day and I was thinking all the bits that are out now . |
| 20 | The more Creggan himself stared at it the bigger and stranger it became , looming out of the mist , its grey shrouds entwined round it . |
| 21 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 22 | Many situations of stress feel like a tangled knot of coloured threads — the more you pull at it the worse it gets . |
| 23 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 24 | They 're looking at it the wrong way . |
| 25 | Shades of my father , I thought , but replied amicably : ‘ Because I enjoy it , and remember that I do n't work at it the whole year , so I do n't get bored . ’ |
| 26 | The troughs are realising you have forgotten something you learned right at the beginning , finding out you have been saying ‘ taste ’ instead of ‘ try ’ for six months , falling asleep over vocabulary , believing you are ready to understand speeches without help and discovering you are not , being corrected by another non-native speaker who has been at it the same time as you , and taking an hour to tell a Lada joke . |
| 27 | Whoever killed Father Reynard shot at us the previous evening . |