Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] look at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened , ’ says an attendant parent , ‘ is that our defence stopped to look at the train . |
| 2 | Well I think it 's very important Robert because , I mean as the charter for the arts indicated look at the money that local authorities are spending upstairs to us and really you know we , we are |
| 3 | Donna sat looking at the box for long moments . |
| 4 | The recession has exacerbated this problem to such an extent that the Metropolitan Police has a Fraud Squad division detailed to look at the issue . |
| 5 | Morse turned to look at the waters once more before he left , then sat silently in the passenger-seat of the police car as Lewis had a final word with Sergeant Dixon . |
| 6 | Patrick turned to look at the street , wondering what had brought Collins here ; but it seemed just another poor tenement side street . |
| 7 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 8 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 9 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 10 | Alyssia had looked at the girl in amazement , beginning to feel disproportionately angry at this unexpected anticlimax . |
| 11 | Christine Griffin ( 1985 ) looked at a group of girls in the same way as Willis had looked at the boys . |
| 12 | When Peter and Anna had come for interview , Anna had looked at the hills with hunger , and not at the cramped kitchen or the meanly proportioned sitting-room , and had urged Peter to accept . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , von Frisch had looked at the honeybee dance more closely . |
| 14 | If people stopped to look at the borders alongside the house he would be perfectly charming ; if they did n't he would n't bother them . |
| 15 | Dr Hunter came to look at the neck and shoulders . |
| 16 | The Doctor and Lacuna turned to look at the screens . |
| 17 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 18 | When Ma had come home from London with her there 'd been great excitement , and Edward and his brother Billy had looked at the mite as if she were a fairy found among the budding snowdrops . |
| 19 | " Your bruise does n't look so good , " Sara said looking at the dark swelling on his cheek bone . |
| 20 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 21 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 22 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 23 | Jenna lay looking at the sky , breathing in the smell of the grass and smiling to herself . |
| 24 | The use of the layby , however , gave concern and councillors suggested looking at the possibility of filling in the laybys along Trinity Hill to prevent further incidents . |
| 25 | He says : ‘ SCL asked to look at the deal I was putting together and straight away they said the biggest problem is conflict of interests . |
| 26 | Blake turned to look at the Doctor . |
| 27 | The following morning , Jim was free and the two men stood looking at the bones . |
| 28 | But Larry declined to look at the tapestry and turned his head up towards her instead . |
| 29 | Standard started looking at the possibilities of EAP back in 1990 when the financial industry was going through a period of great change . |
| 30 | I 'd like to go on and lo dad went to look at the cathedral . |