Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having spent the whole day listening to the contenders , I did not want to look at the list — I felt certain that my name would not appear . |
| 2 | Returning to the Rossiya and not daring to look at the men and women who stood and swayed beside him . |
| 3 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend talked about the future , but we do not need to look into the crystal ball when we can read the book . |
| 5 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 6 | She did not dare to look over the edge : she did n't want to know how far the water had risen . |
| 7 | One does not have to look at the report which the hon. Member for Gordon has thrown away with such disdain . |
| 8 | It must be stressed again that this section of the chapter does not attempt to look at the level and nature of racial discrimination in Britain . |
| 9 | One of the delights of being on holiday is not having to look at the clock . |
| 10 | Dersingham did not bother to look at the man . |
| 11 | I can not understand why , after arriving at Kinghorn , he refused to wait up for his royal master and did not go looking for the King . |
| 12 | ‘ Now , we can not afford to look beyond the return game with the Belgians and start thinking about Marseille . |
| 13 | Hatch considered him carefully , not bothering to look at the ID card that Cowley had held out for inspection . |
| 14 | Like a child who can not bear to look at the cupboard where the witch might live , she stared past the bench and its mummified shape . |
| 15 | It was funny , in a Lewis Carroll sort of way , and at least the result was passable , if only as a trade magazine , whereas the woman 's magazine had been beyond a joke and she could not bear to look at the end product . |
| 16 | I 'm really making up bits now , making the picture look how I want it to look — dark on light , light on dark — not forgetting to look in the mirror ! |
| 17 | They passed the hill , but she did not turn to look at the graveyard . |
| 18 | mm you bring your book cos you do n't think to look at the card |
| 19 | ‘ We do n't need to look in the police station for her , ’ Cobalt added . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't mind looking after the place for a few days , do you ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ My man said he would n't mind looking after the kids . ’ |
| 22 | I ca n't stop looking in the mirror . ’ |
| 23 | As she talked she did n't stop looking around the room . |
| 24 | So it 's like that without , I mean , with Carla , I mean , you ca n't you know , you just ca n't think when you 've got ta I mean she would have been bored and she would n't have looked at the gifts . |
| 25 | ‘ I should n't have looked at the paper — ’ |
| 26 | Or perhaps even that he and I together , in as filthy moods as we were , must n't have looked like the sort of people even a policeman should risk messing with . |
| 27 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 28 | ‘ You have n't wanted to look at the barometer in the last four |
| 29 | Wendy Phillips shows you how on page 30 and do n't forget to look at the countryside in July with Iris Bishop on page 60 . |
| 30 | If Nellie had n't gone looking for the children … |