Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] at the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 2 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 3 | We were talking earlier , and I understand you liked to ride at the weekends , and you 're often competing on your horse , er , ha , if you were to have a fall , and erm , you had a back injury , or erm , you sustained an injury that would you keep you from work for a substantial amount of time , er , how would you feel , would you be able to pay your premiums ? |
| 4 | Sometimes she dared to wonder at the causes for this way of life , for she could see that it did not represent a normal attitude towards society , though it was so deeply bred in her that all aberrations from it were for the rest of her life to seem to her perverse : but when , occasionally , she glimpsed some faint light of causation , she recoiled from it and shut her eyes in horror , preferring the darkness to such bitter illumination . |
| 5 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 6 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 7 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 8 | If they chose to quarrel at the tops of their voices , that was their business . |
| 9 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 10 | He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare . |
| 11 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 12 | But I knew that it would be difficult to persuade Jimbo that he had to work at the exercises : yet if the treatment were to succeed , it had to be him — Jimbo himself — who , in the end , would reopen the pathway of nerves between brain and muscle . |
| 13 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |