Example sentences of "[vb past] to look at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could …
2 in a way se , he came to look at that .
3 Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . "
4 and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was
5 The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library
6 There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w
7 They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other .
8 Discussion in the community needs to be initiated and encouraged to look at all these issues that affect women .
9 Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ?
10 Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options .
11 But I was as susceptible as any other golfer and loved to look at new equipment .
12 They all started to look at each other rather furtively .
13 The door of his room was open , his desk was unlocked , and I decided to look at this memento .
14 One problem that has cropped up when trying to turn zoos into arks is that a lot of the exhibits are leftovers from the days when zoos were unashamedly places where people went to look at exotic animals .
15 He then went to look at some property left to the council by a benefactor , an old grain warehouse .
16 After luncheon we went to look at some watercolours in which she is interested at Agnew 's , in Bond Street .
17 That , they went to look at some in
18 they went to look at some homes in Thorne , did n't they ?
19 The TV western seemed to fade into the sunset some time in the mid-1970s , victim of a narcissistic age that preferred to look at prosperous , smart-alecky or violent images of itself ( Dallas , Cheers , Miami Vice ) .
20 Schaffer paused to look at some of the bright crayon drawings that were pinned to the foremost partition .
21 D' you wanted to look at that wood in the shed .
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