Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pout at the pouting mackerel |
| 2 | It was like watching someone push at an invisible turnstile . |
| 3 | When I write biographies , I sit at a large kitchen table with a wide surface on which books and papers can be laid , essential for checking quotations or references . |
| 4 | I feel stupid if I cry at an emotional film or book |
| 5 | I knock at the wood-plank door and it sounds as empty as a politician 's promise . |
| 6 | It 's kind of late now and I 'm in no condition to drive so when I get the 205 I only take it as far as the outskirts of Inverness where I stop at the first lit Bed and Breakfast sign I see and talk politely and slowly to the pleasant middle-aged couple from Glasgow who run the place and then say goodnight , close the door of my room and fall fast asleep on the bed without even taking off my jacket . |
| 7 | And I suppose he that 's an area where one is worried about quantity and quality because it 's in a way you can always provide more quantity I imagine at a lesser cost by going into a conurbation than you can by going into rural areas . |
| 8 | Rachel and I wait at the little barrier in the station terminus , and again I think what an ordinary pair of holidaymakers we must look — too tatty to be honeymooners , but the same kind of contentment together . |
| 9 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 10 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 11 | I look at the dark house in front of me and the screens of tall shrubs and young trees on either side concealing the two neighbouring villas . |
| 12 | During the spring , I look at the new beech leaves . |
| 13 | Sometimes I look at the other women , see one with a baby on her knee , then a little child runs up and tells her something that makes her laugh … |
| 14 | Now I look at the confident sexual swagger of young men with more than a faint envy . |
| 15 | Quickly , I look at the real Philip . |
| 16 | I look at the short-term programme and er see , yeah . |
| 17 | For example , that the images that I now call up in my mind as I look at the front door of my house , this is something quite real , but it 's real in a much more radically different , in a radically different sense , there 's a , somehow a radically difference in the kind of reality which that image enjoys , to the reality that that bottle enjoys . |
| 18 | ‘ One week I look at the various uses of manure , another , say , a flat cap that can improve your golf swing or the cup and spoon for people with moustaches . ’ |
| 19 | I look at the knackered tubes . |
| 20 | ‘ As I look at the shabby , commercialised and demoralised society in which I write I am more convinced than ever that the political analysis on which I was brought up was right . |
| 21 | So how about if I look at the six monthly saving , |
| 22 | I look at the first enjoyed it |
| 23 | When I look at the European Community I see foreign policy and internal security pillars and ask myself how well the Government have been able to keep them purely intergovernmental and how many commitments we are making that will damage British interests in the future . |
| 24 | I look at the false leg for a bit while he pulls up his trouser leg . |
| 25 | I look at the luminous hands of the clock . |
| 26 | When I look at the Olympic fighters here I see several with good styles and professional potential who should make it to the top if they get with the right coaches . ’ |
| 27 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
| 28 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 29 | ‘ We must hold our nerve , ’ Malik was saying , ‘ and have someone look at the damn manuscript . |
| 30 | I weep at the impending demise of my oldest and supportive friend ! |