Example sentences of "that [pron] [verb] at [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realized that everyone looked at her with new eyes , handling her like a precious piece of porcelain to be admired but not touched . |
| 2 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 3 | So much is now known of the Alpine fold belts , the times and forms of their movements , and so much is now being deduced about the relationship of all this to the theories of plate tectonics , that I marvel at my audacity in saying anything at all at this stage . |
| 4 | I just wanted to tell you that I glanced at your book while cleaning my master 's study ( he is a doctor ) and it has had a terrible effect on me . |
| 5 | But now that I look at her , I 've changed my mind . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But of course , now that I look at you , you have his colouring . |
| 7 | It is thus that I arrive at my multiplier for the whole life of eighteen . |
| 8 | ‘ And was it along the trail that someone shot at you ? ’ |
| 9 | You see I never believe in smoke without fire , and when our man is nicked on a spying charge then I say to myself that somebody got at him , somebody asked a favour of him , somebody got round him . |
| 10 | I was amazed that nobody stared at us , or even shouted back . |
| 11 | But he knew that she stared at him , and felt rather than saw the hostility there . |
| 12 | She was scarcely aware of the tapping at the door until it opened and Niall came into the room , his presence the catalyst for so many warring emotions within her that she stared at him with mutinous , tear-filled eyes . |
| 13 | But even so , Louise was so hungry that she stared at them with a fearful concentration , ignoring Fleury 's polite conversation as he made the tea . |
| 14 | It was n't what he said but more the way he said it , imbuing the words with so much meaning that she glared at him . |
| 15 | ‘ Never mind , ’ called McAllister , ‘ needs must … ’ and wobbled down Vetch Street , praying that she arrived at her destination in one piece , the balance of the wretched thing being all wrong , especially with the overloaded basket at the front . |
| 16 | She turned to run , but Goldman was on her , grabbing her arms , her shoulders , fending off the wild blows that she aimed at his face . |
| 17 | He spoke with the sort of quietly threatening tone that you ignored at your peril . |
| 18 | I urge you to take your master into your confidence , explaining that you glanced at my book by chance while cleaning his study , and that you have been greatly disturbed by it . |
| 19 | Basically that it 's there to be enjoyed and that it is only when you enjoy it that you play at your best — I always enjoy my cricket . |
| 20 | Can I ask when we deal with the others that you look at them in that light . |
| 21 | you 've used a triangular bandage to cover a wound in the scalp , it 's not a chopping block wound right , it 's not the chopper in its wound right , it 's just a minor wound in the scalp , yes , and that came round and tied at the front , tucked at the back , you used these roller bandages to cover a graze or a wound on the end of an elbow or a knee or the hand , foot and then a straight one up the arm okay , so a lot of your bandaging is using these little roller bandages with the lint pad and do n't forget when you get into the exam do it , do n't do it the wrong way round , remember that you look at your bandage and you put the lint onto the wound , not the other way round right , yeah , you put the lint face down onto the wound , okay ? |
| 22 | In the play , such is the force of the opinion against her that one wonders at her resolution , which increasingly seems to go against common sense , decency , and even the fundamental duties of a parent . |
| 23 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 24 | Mourning can have a therapeutic function that we ignore at our peril . |
| 25 | I assure him that we look at them every year , but he is aware , as he said during his speech , that there are two different objectives : one is to make the assessments as simple as possible ; the other is to make them as fair as possible . |
| 26 | And I think it 's very important that we look at what the impact of that transfer will have upon the hospital . |
| 27 | it does that I suggest that we look at it again tomorrow . |
| 28 | My worry now is that we meet at his house before moving on . |
| 29 | It 's time that they looked at themselves . |
| 30 | This process not only gives identification and hope for the newcomer , it also reminds the old-timers that they forget at their peril how life used to be . |