Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] look at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 2 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 3 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 4 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 5 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 7 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 8 | ‘ They put elderflowers in it , ’ I said looking at the label . |
| 9 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 10 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 11 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 12 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 13 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 14 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 15 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 16 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 17 | Mummy anyway , you know that you enjoyed looking at The Bounty ? |
| 18 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 19 | She kept looking at the wallscreen with distrust . |
| 20 | She kept looking at the telephone beside her bed , willing it to ring , dithering . |
| 21 | ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts . |
| 22 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 23 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 24 | When she came in she stood looking at the figure stretched out on the floor . |
| 25 | If only one stopped to look at the shape of the garment and the stitch used , it might well be just what we have been looking for ! |
| 26 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 27 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 28 | ‘ Because an objection was raised we decided to look at the matter again , ’ said Reg Pyne , assistant registrar , standards and ethics . |
| 29 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 30 | He added : ‘ We did look at the possibility of replacing McDermott with another fast bowler but all those good enough were already committed elsewhere . ’ |