Example sentences of "and look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He comes out into the garden and sips his tea and looks around . |
| 2 | When the cat enters the room and looks around , it notices that several people are staring at it . |
| 3 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 4 | He stabs at the buttons three times , then wriggles over to the handset and makes muffled shouts through the gag until you cock the gun and he hears it and looks round at where you stand , next to the wall , waving the telephone 's wall-plug . |
| 5 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 6 | Marie comes behind me and looks over my shoulder . |
| 7 | ‘ See you , ’ I say and escape to City Road , where an off-licencee is opening and looks up surprised to see an office yuppie ( his definition ) among the line of winoes so early in the morning-o ! |
| 8 | Juanita sits in the kitchen and looks up with her embarrassed half-smile/half-laugh when I bend down and step inside . |
| 9 | A man with what appears to be two sacks of potatoes on his back stops and looks up to where I sit . |
| 10 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 11 | The Science Museum set comes from the Guildford Grammar School , and looks in remarkably good order . |
| 12 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 13 | She smiles slightly , and looks down at her hand as she runs a finger round the steel rim of the little marble-topped table . |
| 14 | One-Arm runs to the window and looks down . |
| 15 | So when your youngster barks and looks back at you , reassure him with a pat . |
| 16 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 17 | He puts the phone down and looks back at me . |
| 18 | He follows a hill-track on his journey home , and looks out with startled pleasure when the coastal plain emerges below him . |
| 19 | The garden is pretty and looks out onto six acres of fields and a copse , and contains a tennis court which guests are welcome to use . |
| 20 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 21 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 22 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 23 | Howard stops walking up and down , and looks out of the window . |
| 24 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 25 | Atherton , back in the side for his first Test of the tour , battled through 41 overs to show England 's management why they should have picked him at Madras , while Blakey — brought in because Neil Fairbrother was still ill with a virus — has now made only seven runs from three Test innings and looks out of his depth . |
| 26 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |
| 27 | Had he woken up and looked out of one of the bedroom windows he would have seen his wife in the moonlight pulling desperately at the handle on a manhole cover . |
| 28 | ‘ I went to the Tokyo Motor Show and looking around realised that most of the new big cars were front-wheel drive and nearly all had transverse engines . |
| 29 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 30 | She got control of herself , found Delaney pausing , and looking around for her . |