Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His companions were both in their forties , one of them greying at the temples , a squat , powerfully built man ; the other was a tall gangling individual with deep set eyes which remained fixed on Hitch the whole time . |
| 2 | I gazed at the pistons , the steam , the vats and the slopping trays : so much wetness to produce something as dry as paper . |
| 3 | I peer at the kids ' faces , and feel like a teacher at an end-of-term disco . |
| 4 | I am not a modernist , though I presided at the Arts Council with liberal equanimity over the public funding of much modernist art which I did not understand . |
| 5 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 6 | I DAWN AT THE PYRAMIDS |
| 7 | Heathcliff and Hareton stood at the door , laughing , as I shouted at the dogs and tried to get up . |
| 8 | I peered at the labels and too began the Harry , Frank , Charlie , Mabel way . |
| 9 | I peered at the photographs on the dressing table . |
| 10 | Situations vacant in particular showed a very , a very big drop and erm , and in fact we , the yield was lower than the year before , but we 've er , continued with our pac press rationalization programme and er , I think as I mentioned at the interims , the Basildon Evening Echo is now printed on the F T's presses , which incidentally has got the contract to and is printing er , . |
| 11 | Thus as I look at the figures I see the question in a broader context . |
| 12 | But the thing I keep coming back to when I look at the figures is that Northallerton is only a third bigger than Selby . |
| 13 | Yeah you 're right I look at the headlights . |
| 14 | ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’ |
| 15 | Well er , that 's alright , I , I would n't , I look at the things which we do very well , erm , and a lot of people say |
| 16 | ‘ So when I look at the books now and I see all the symbols and all the stuff they do , I think ‘ Well , I 've already played this , and I 'm not really interested in reading it ! ’ |
| 17 | When I look at the results of other development efforts , I have also not seen improvements in cost of maintenance . |
| 18 | Now , when I look at the pictures of the car after the crash , with the passenger-side floor sill and roof crumpled and distorted and my seat moved forward — which helped trap me in the car — I wonder whether we chose the car on the correct criteria . |
| 19 | I look at the charts every week . |
| 20 | I arrived at the studios laden with books containing pieces to read . |
| 21 | And I stare at the handprints on the ceiling . |
| 22 | For a second or two I stare at the words quite blankly . |
| 23 | I glanced at the faces on either side of the Colonel , but I was still fascinated by Charlie Vaughan . |
| 24 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 25 | And that 's when I waved at the Guards major Nogin and set in motion the arrest of Ralph Pike . |
| 26 | Erm and when I looked at the figures , we had a greater percentage of institutions and pupils than the other sharer or partner in the process . |
| 27 | I looked at the posters . |
| 28 | I looked at the posters . |
| 29 | I looked at the posters and the photographs . |
| 30 | After all , I looked at the paintings … ’ |