Example sentences of "from [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ronni turned round from gazing at the figure on the jetty as her brother , manning the outboard motor behind her , responded with a snort of disapproval . |
| 2 | But bureaucratic and constitutional obstacles may prevent South African athletes from competing at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics , even if political objections are soon lifted . |
| 3 | Clients of licensed dealer Prior Harwin , for instance , welched on deals they had agreed on the telephone when the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) stopped the firm from trading at the end of 1986 . |
| 4 | That did not prevent Somerset Maugham , in the sanctuary of a villa in the south of France , from shuddering at the private fantasy of a shaggy-haired mob seizing sudden sway in literary London — an effect , as he imagined , of the welfare state ; and he was certain that their social origins were unprecedentedly humble . |
| 5 | British audiences may derive enjoyment from laughing at the psychobabble , wincing at the plot contrivances and gaping at the crashingly obvious phallic symbolism , but the movie as a whole goes off at half-Hitchcock . |
| 6 | He was taken into custody for his own protection … as it was learned that he 'd been disqualified from driving at the time of the crash . |
| 7 | Stephen Reynolds , who was disqualified from driving at the time of the crash , is one of the first people to be convicted under the new charge . |
| 8 | Growling like a mother cat may make a cat owner feel ridiculous , but if it helps to restrain a cat from tearing at a valuable chair , it is well worth a try . |
| 9 | These Acts apply to prevent dealers from agreeing to abstain from bidding at a sale unless there was a genuine prior agreement to purchase on joint account , and a copy of this agreement lodged with the auctioneer . |
| 10 | He comes away from the roots and I swing the rod over to my right , parallel with the water , to keep him low and prevent him from splashing at the surface . |
| 11 | Keeping him from snapping at the heels of Normandy is bad enough . ’ |
| 12 | My story , A Pair of Yellow Lilies , came from looking at a double-stemmed lily in our conservatory . |
| 13 | From a military point of view , the strategic importance of the Iberian Peninsula was evident simply from looking at a map . |
| 14 | Also , what you generally find is that if somebody is reading as opposed to refreshing their memory from looking at a piece of paper and then letting it flow , if they 're reading from it it 's dull , it lacks sparkle . |
| 15 | Do you find it easy to deduce class from looking at a living room ? |
| 16 | The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ From looking at the wound , I would say that it must be . ’ |
| 18 | Zap ! — and the one Henry most favoured , which seemed from looking at the label to be a sexier version of raw bleach — Finish 'Em It came in a huge blue bottle on the side of which was a picture of something that looked like a bluebottle with twelve legs keeling over , while a housewife in rubber gloves looked grimly on . |
| 19 | Arthur Conway turned from looking at the man to Agnes as she quickly explained what she had sold the customer . |
| 20 | Long before any of this , Kevin Brown had returned from looking at the corpse of Simon Cormack to the point where Quinn still stood . |
| 21 | Most viewers who ponder the matter can decide — from looking at the eyes — which of the four sisters is married to the photographer . |
| 22 | Now at this point I want to sort of take a break from looking at the development of the Communist Party to looking briefly at the peasantry because although the peasantry have been in the background for much of the time , we have n't actually looked in any detail , so far , at the condition of the peasantry in China . |
| 23 | The roads and the settlements are there all right , as you can tell from looking at the map , but many of the people are not ; they have left this blessed landscape for the towns , for Tarbes or for Toulouse . |
| 24 | More than we can gain from looking at the grade and the stage . |
| 25 | With all the previous intermediaries we looked at , we warned that we can not judge the volume of buying and selling of assets which an intermediary carries out just from looking at the inflow of new funds . |
| 26 | Yet as we unbend from looking at the grass |
| 27 | ( i.e. From looking at the distribution it is possible to determine that setting a threshold score of 88 ( say ) would remove 30% of the target words from the lattice giving a lattice quality of Q70 ) |
| 28 | There is little to be gained from looking at the past achievements of a school if the head and the governors treat their task as having been totally defined by the Education Reform Act . |
| 29 | It seems to me from looking at the figures within the projections that what North Yorkshire are are planning is that we 'll have a return to that widening black area that 's part of that particular diagram . |
| 30 | Yet if it is not alarmed by this procedure , you may well be able to relieve the obstruction and so prevent the dog from choking at a time when rapid action is required . |