Example sentences of "[pron] and look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted .
2 Then , tiring of their unfriendly glances , she turned her back on them and looked across the street .
3 Alexandra stood between them and looked down the lane , sunk between high fields , and saw the church tower rising among leafless trees and the blue slate roofs that clustered round it .
4 Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it .
5 It 's got a bad stigma to it and that 's what 's the main problem with it , y'know , this junkie in a dirty squat with a needle hanging out of his arm and OD'ing and dealing on his doorstep and everything and looking like the pictures you see of people falling to bits , but for me personally it 's not like that , y'know , I do try to conduct a normal law-abiding life .
6 ‘ I recall the under-21 team finding Scott Booth , from Aberdeen , in an emergency like this one and look at the player he turned out to be , ’ said Brown .
7 She made friendly overtures , invited her to stay in their large , warm , scenic , colourful , untidy house in Sussex , told Alix to live for herself and look to the future , offered to look after the baby whenever Alix needed a break .
8 ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair .
9 He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside .
10 She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning .
11 He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all .
12 I vote we walk into it and look for the summit under the water . ’
13 But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho .
14 He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry .
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