Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 2 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 3 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 4 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 5 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 6 | He broke off , blushed and tried not to look at Jilly Jonathan . |
| 7 | Philip tried not to look at him . |
| 8 | Dot tried not to look at Gloria 's face . |
| 9 | I was terrified , I tried not to look at him , I tried pulling my skirt down over my knees . |
| 10 | I tried not to look at anything in between . |
| 11 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 12 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 13 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 14 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 15 | I turned back to Lloyd and tried not to look at Beeby 's legs . |
| 16 | Ronni tried not to look at him and squeezed the water from her hair . |
| 17 | She tried not to look at him as he talked . |
| 18 | Charles tried not to look like the outcast he was feeling and quickened his pace to simulate important last minute business at the Officers ' Mess . |
| 19 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 20 | Pete nodded and moved off to look for some more of Bob Ivie 's jungle juice , and Diane eased her way through into the ballroom . |
| 21 | On the way back home he stopped off to look at a house he was thinking of buying . |
| 22 | She drew back to look at me , startled . |
| 23 | Jenna drew back to look at him with stormy disbelief and he grinned down at her , gathering her close again . |
| 24 | Jake drew back to look at her . |
| 25 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 26 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |
| 27 | ‘ How old is the child ? ’ he asked , and Maureen 's head jerked round to look at him in amazement . |
| 28 | His head jerked round to look at her , and he missed a gear change . |
| 29 | He stuck out his tongue and squinted down to look at it . |
| 30 | He pestered anyone who came along to look at his back and examine it for spots . |