Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] [verb] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a couple of hours of observing in these conditions , shapes and objects in front of me appeared to move , if I stared at them for too long . |
| 2 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 3 | Cooper said : ‘ Would you be happy if someone jumped at you with two feet ? ’ |
| 4 | I keep saying we looked at cos I looked at it on Sunday and |
| 5 | Thus Betelgeux in Orion , one of the brightest stars in the sky , is clearly orange-red , but Mu Cephei , in the far north , shows almost no colour at all until you look at it with binoculars , when it gives the impression of a glowing coal , and earns its nickname of ‘ the Garnet Star ’ . |
| 6 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 8 | ‘ Nobody , ’ said Scarlet , thinking that if you looked at yourself for long enough , you and your reflection merged until there really was no one there at all . |
| 9 | He said he should have said that morning that if you looked at Dynmouth in one way you saw it prettily , with its tea-shops and lace ; and that if you looked at it in another way there was Timothy Gedge . |
| 10 | I 'll do it , if you come at me like that again . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you look at something like raising a purchase order , what it tends to involve is combining bits of paper from different departments and only at the very end is a computer entry made — which is not a massive improvement on all-paper systems , ’ said . |
| 12 | If you look at something like the Institute for Group Psychotherapy in London , it 's founded on other writings than Freud 's writings on Group Psychology . |
| 13 | So if you look at something like Q P5 where you have got this point qualitated , in fact a lot of the points do n't actually apply to qualitated because many of the points relate to erm , D P erm , qualitative field as opposed to survey . |
| 14 | Yeah mhm yeah I mean you may want to select some stuff that 's y'know that represents different kinds of things because as I remember our conversations earlier , you were interested in er y'know sort of ideological soundness , political correctness and y'know were some things funny but sort of off-colour for other reasons erm er I 'm paraphrasing it badly but er y'know I think that th s so you might want to get some stuff that 's sort of ideologically sound and humorous and er some stuff that 's a bit off-colour and humorous and some stuff that 's erm sort of I do n't know some stuff that 's main stream but has got a lot of y'know if you look at something like say The Two Ronnies or something , there 's a lot of there 's a lot of racism and sexism in there but it 's because it 's sort of main stream because it 's family viewing and stuff like that people tend not to think of it as problematic . |
| 15 | If you look at yourself in a mirror , a pool of water , or any shiny , flat surface , you will see your own reflection . |
| 16 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , you are gazing into the eyes of a predator . |
| 17 | If you look at yourself in the mirror , no amount of willing can remove er , fat around your waist . |
| 18 | That 's what you 'd think about it if you look at it as a piece of morphology , the shell shape — it turns out to be all one species with gene flow , hybridization right across the lot . |
| 19 | If you look at it within that context , these cadenzas by Leppard are rather conventional . |
| 20 | ‘ The Beatles were a brilliant thing that happened , but if you look at it from another point of view , what a waste of time . ’ |
| 21 | If you look at it from round that way it 's two lots of six . |
| 22 | But if you look at it from this way four people standing there they 'll get three each . |
| 23 | It is like the surface of an orange : if you look at it close up , it is all curved and wrinkled , but if you look at it from a distance , you do n't see the bumps and it appears to be smooth . |
| 24 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 25 | If you look at it in shallow terms like that you are making a mistake . |
| 26 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 27 | we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil ! |
| 28 | which make it easier for you to stop and a lot of people do n't have the choice to stop , if you look at it in that sense . |
| 29 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 30 | Yeah , exactly , so if , if you look at it in terms of the Kipsigy you know system , you can clearly see that what they showed was youth and plumpness were the critical fac an an and attractiveness , if the girl was young , plump and attractive she got a high and if the girl was older erm , if she had something wrong with her or she was skinny , then the less and that 's , so it 's quite interesting |