Example sentences of "at [pers pn] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each fired an eight-millimetre cine camera at me from opposite sides of the road . |
| 2 | A thing slid hugely over the crest of a nearby ridge , and gazed at me from several eyes . |
| 3 | No well I would n't have looked at them from that , from the point of view of |
| 4 | When you have worked through the sensations , looked at them from all angles and asked yourself why they have entered your life and what is to be gained from them , it is important to be able to let them go . |
| 5 | I go across and look at them from close to . |
| 6 | On the 22nd , a major German attempt to capitalise on the Avocourt success was caught by brilliantly sited French machine guns , firing at them from three sides . |
| 7 | The groups flanking the god should be transposed so that the Centaurs carry their victims outwards and the heroes strike at them from next to the protecting god . |
| 8 | You 've got to look at them from different angles , see if there 's any smoke bellowing out from anywhere , or somebody 's hanging out of a window . |
| 9 | You 're confined to this place , ’ he waves his gangly arm around his tiny office in the Lords one Wednesday afternoon , ‘ stuff flies at you from left , right and centre , ’ he snorts , as his forehead furrows . |
| 10 | Diamonds , emeralds , rubies and sapphires as well as a mixture of semi-precious stones glinted and sparkled at her from all directions . |
| 11 | How on earth could he tell ? she wondered , hunched against the banshee howling that came at her from all directions , hurling rain against her skin with such force it stung like grit . |
| 12 | The air was charged with tension coming at her from all directions . |
| 13 | Suddenly those flaring sapphire eyes were inches from hers , looking down at her from great heights , forcing her to lift her chin a notch higher than was comfortable to look into them . |
| 14 | Green eyes stared back at her from beneath dark slanting brows but with her short hair that accentuated her elfin face she somehow felt the swimsuit only made her slight figure look even more boyish . |
| 15 | Politicians are slinging arrows at him from all sides . |
| 16 | Ideas bombed at him from all directions . |
| 17 | But then you hear a traveller at the railway station , prepared as a medieval knight , daysack on his front , chickenwire behind , was hit by five fat women , coming at him from all directions . |
| 18 | The idea was to sit the listener in the middle of a square array of loudspeakers , so sound would come at him from all corners — despite the fact that most live performances of music take place in front of the listener . |
| 19 | Driving through unfamiliar London streets had been nerve-racking enough — vehicles and flashing lights seemed to be coming at him from all angles — but with two kidnap victims in the back , his brain refused to function rationally . |
| 20 | He had only his sword , and my men were coming at him from one side , and Sapt and Fritz from the other . |
| 21 | He stared at the rows of glass jars below the books on the walls — and saw an eye staring back at him from one of them , and what could have been a human foetus in another . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , I say , Aubrey , that 's jolly decent of you , ’ she said , beaming at him from round , blue eyes . |
| 23 | Sometimes , he would catch glimpses of wonderful things through the trees : silver wolves slipping like fluid between the gnarled trunks , their eyes the blue of an early autumn sky ; hewkin maidens of astounding loveliness dancing in a spotlight of moonbeams , curling their slim green hands towards him in bird-like gestures ; ghost children with berry-red faces and tomb-black eyes , laughing down at him from high branches . |
| 24 | Move around the image and look at it from various points of view . |
| 25 | The purpose of this afternoon 's session is basically we 're we 're sort of looking at it from two pronged attacked . |
| 26 | To look at it from that point of view . |
| 27 | And er looking at it from that light it was er obviously a better proposition . |
| 28 | I think w w what I 'd urge the panel to consider is is perhaps looking at it from that perspective , to encourage the County Council to review the phasing provision of policy H one erm in terms of er how the the committed land is going to be released for development . |
| 29 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |
| 30 | At night she leaves her bed , lights a lamp , and gazes at it from all points of view . |