Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I know , you only got to look at the VAT ai n't you for starters |
| 2 | The other thing which is actually mentioned that we one of the worst aspects was done and I personally tried to look at what the impact on road building around elsewhere and it is absolutely appalling and er I think that is something which is to be , I 'm sure it will be , will be called out . |
| 3 | ’ Chaman suddenly began to look rather sad . |
| 4 | If you decided that you 're really only interested in long priced horses because you wanted win a large sum of money , so you only started looking at horses that were offered at fifty to one or longer odds than that , then if you look at the statistics then you 'll find that the rate of return on such bets is even lower than the rate of return that we 've quoted on football pools , but on the other hand if you look at horses which are offered , say , at odds-on or at very low odds , evens , two to one and things like that , then the rate of return is pretty close to a hundred per cent of your money . |
| 5 | For hours , civilians of both faiths dutifully queued at these terrible checkpoints at each end of the Ring on the innocent assumption that the gunmen there merely wished to look at their identity papers . |
| 6 | ‘ Dear , oh , dear , ’ said Betty , who naturally had looked . |
| 7 | Goldberg I had known it would attack , he wrote , and sooner rather than later , the soil was ripe for the sprouting of concern , refugees , famine , the bomb , you only had to look at him , sentiment inevitable , despite my efforts , despite my scorn . |
| 8 | You only had to look at her greasy black hair , her insolent stare and her creased and spotted uniform . |
| 9 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 10 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 11 | I could tell , I only had to look in their faces . |
| 12 | She did not believe that marriage , or pairing , or however you cared to define a sexual relationship , was the key to happiness and fulfilment ; you only had to look around you to see that this was not so . |
| 13 | When he started school , she only had to look after him before school started and after it finished , so she took on a part-time job as a lunch-time playground supervisor at the same school . |
| 14 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 15 | Someone only had to look at me later on for me to get pregnant . ’ |
| 16 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 17 | Erm Isaac Azimov writes er , rather amusingly about this , he says why did , why did Weismann bother , he said Weismann was Jewish , of course , Weismann knew that since time immemorial , er , Jewish little boys have been having their foreskins chopped off , Weismann only had to look at his own children , when they were born , to see that even Jewish little boys are born with foreskins . |
| 18 | Oh , sometimes it was irritating , even downright infuriating to look round and see him just a couple of paces away , but she only had to look into those dark eyes to feel that treacherous quiver of desire deep in the pit of her stomach . |
| 19 | Natascia said : ‘ I only wanted to look good . ’ |
| 20 | In fact , this can hardly be done in many cases because the animals concerned are nocturnal or are very well camouflaged ; but the stiffly mounted corpse on its studio stump , so characteristic of the eighteenth century , soon came to look dated . |
| 21 | I just happened to look up and he was back . |
| 22 | It was presumably real gold , yet it somehow contrived to look brash and cheap , like junk jewellery trying to make up in flash what it lacked in value . |
| 23 | I desperately needed looking after . |
| 24 | Instead , he just kept looking at the American ambassador with what Sullivan describes as 'soulful eyes " . |
| 25 | Rufus just went looked like a vampire attacked her . |
| 26 | Carlo scarcely had to look . |
| 27 | but I just had to look at them , that was enough . |
| 28 | We just had to look for the Motor Caravan Construction Code symbol . |
| 29 | I just had to look after our property . |
| 30 | His touch was as she remembered it , warm and gentle , but as he gently returned her foot to the ground she again felt shy — absurdly and ridiculously shy , when she could never remember being so taken by shyness before — and she just had to look away from him while she collected herself . |