Example sentences of "[vb past] to look at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now McGowan tuned to look at Jed and Jed saw his own face twice . |
| 32 | It also began to look at proposals for MA courses , and at its November 1966 meeting , for example , it expressed the view that a proposed MA in Business Administration at Portsmouth College of Technology did not meet the CNAA 's criterion that the content should be substantially postgraduate in character : too much of it was introductory work , insufficiently rooted in the basic disciplines . |
| 33 | Esther paid her first visit to Italy , where she spent three months at the Università per Stranieri in Perugia , learned some Italian , drank a great deal of wine , took up with a middle-aged American art historian and began to look at paintings . |
| 34 | In May 1960 the EEC began to look at ways of liberalising the movement of capital , and the following year issued the first regulations governing the existence of cartels . |
| 35 | The simplest solution would be to raise grants to a civilised level and then to peg them to the movement of wages or prices , but this was not among the options considered by the government when it began to look at student funding . |
| 36 | ‘ I started to look at things a bit differently after that , and it certainly seems to have worked for me . ’ |
| 37 | In December 1935 , Perrin decided to look at ethylene . |
| 38 | We therefore , decided to look at credit transfer between our Higher National courses . |
| 39 | Jarvis wandered about the world as young people do , but instead of driving a van to India or observing political upheaval in Central America or getting into trouble in Africa he went to look at metro systems . |
| 40 | Oh I see that , that 's how you remember , oh the other day I went to look at Asda you know , put my card in the machine and my mind just went totally blank , do you think I could remember the dam number . |
| 41 | When he went to look at Anna before going to school her eyes were once more as blue as the sky , and she curled her fingers round his as if she did n't want to let him go . |
| 42 | Hoomey went to look at Bones , thoughtfully . |
| 43 | Ludens went to look at Irina who was on her knees rummaging in a pile of clothes which now covered the floor of the bedroom . |
| 44 | In the United States , whale-watching is big business : 3.25m people went to look at whales in 1991 , bringing in revenues of nearly $100m . |
| 45 | Sarah chose to look at contract distribution and information systems division in her dissertation . |
| 46 | Over by the volleyball court a crowd of older children gathered to look at postcards of Scotland ( always an icebreaker , particularly if you can find a picture of someone in a kilt ) . |
| 47 | Christian accompanied him once to Ireland to watch a new filly run , took one look through the field-glasses , announced he was already dying of boredom , and departed to look at paintings . |
| 48 | I continued to look at Taff as he cleaned around the inside of the mess tin with his forefinger and drawing the finger across his lips with a slow gesture . |
| 49 | Like Carolyn , she had to look at Bill Kay with new eyes before finding him sexy . |
| 50 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 51 | He refused to look at Juliet . |
| 52 | The hurt tightened her lips and she absolutely refused to look at Alain . |