Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 2 | Unless you have only very few Windows applications , or enjoy looking at the background ( which may be changed to something prettier ) enlarge the Program Manager to fill the entire screen . |
| 3 | Not cocky enough not to watch my speed , though , nor to keep looking in the rearview mirror . |
| 4 | And that means looking at the audit schedule out front so that you , you 're not . |
| 5 | In this way the object-oriented paradigm can be accommodated in a form that continues to look like a Cobol program , combining method , local data and procedure code . |
| 6 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 7 | At the outset of their research , messrs Deakins and Hussain believed : ‘ there is a paucity of qualitative research that attempts to look at the relationship between the bank manager and the small business owner and the importance of different reasons for accepting and rejecting propositions that come before the banks . |
| 8 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 9 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 10 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 11 | Kate obtains a copy of Sheila Kitzinger 's The New Good Birth Guide and Gordon Bourne 's Pregnancy and starts looking for a hospital that gets two stars and is nearby . |
| 12 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 13 | This man with long greasy hair and a sleeping bag sort of rolled into a ball comes over and starts looking in the bins . |
| 14 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 15 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 16 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 17 | PC Blenkinsop pushed out his narrow chest and tried to look like an all-knowing , sophisticated officer . |
| 18 | The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed . |
| 19 | In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . " |
| 20 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 21 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 22 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 23 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 24 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 25 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 26 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 27 | If there are any problems then we should be able to say to ourselves , well let's go and have look at the project quality plan , what 's that tell us ? |
| 28 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 29 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 30 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |