Example sentences of "[vb past] to have a look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I trudged back to the city centre and tried to have a look around the main shopping district , forced to sprint squelchily from doorway to doorway and from one dripping awning to another ; but it was hopeless . |
| 2 | I promised to have a look at the dig and point out where the tessellated pavement should be . |
| 3 | One morning a umini from Pere came to have a look at it . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 5 | After we had rescued these people we decided to have a look at some other floods . |
| 6 | On my way to the pay ‘ phone near the gents , I noticed the door to the back room was open , and for some reason I decided to have a look . |
| 7 | I 've got to look at it today , I meant to have a look . |
| 8 | Kathleen and I went off for some lunch and we then went to have a look at the castle . |
| 9 | So , round I went to have a look . |
| 10 | The day dawned misty and drizzly so we went to have a look , confident heroics would not be called for . |
| 11 | I went to the Norfolk Broads , and erm I think it was Saturday morning we went to have a look at a flat , |
| 12 | So he stopped and he listened to this and went to have a look , see what was going on . |
| 13 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |
| 14 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 15 | So while I was there I went to have a look at the erm the microwaves for Carl . |
| 16 | went to have a look in his bedrooms like and I they 're all done out in pine , every bedroom is done out in pine . |
| 17 | Oh we k we went to have a look at them in |
| 18 | I 'd put them all in an old suitcase and erm , cos I could n't just put them in there I had to have a look , they 're sentimental and that book was in there so I can definitely get you that , but I would n't go up in the loft I 'm afraid , I 'm so scared of creepy crawlies so er , you know , if you , if you want to come back some time when my husband 's here I mean he can tell you more about the wallpaper and decorating , and I 'll get him to get that out . |
| 19 | Most of the East Germans surging across said they just wanted to have a look at West Berlin , have a beer in a bar , or see a friend . |
| 20 | She just wanted to have a look . |
| 21 | I could not re I did n't go , I er , I just wanted to have a look at them but I , I could n't resist it . |
| 22 | I wanted to have a look at the price of their erm Chanderel Look at this little chair ! |
| 23 | Well you said you wanted to have a look at the er quilt covers ? |
| 24 | Charles volunteered to have a look out and clambered on to the seat , testing the strength of the pipe running up the wall . |