Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] look at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the thermometer . |
| 2 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 3 | I stopped to look at the shore . |
| 4 | ‘ We toured the Transport Museum , ’ said Peter , ‘ and Alexander Karaulov and I stopped to look at the autogyro on display . |
| 5 | ‘ I came to look at the gravestone . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The most extraordinary thing happened , ’ he explained , ‘ I was sitting here ( at his desk in Kensington palace ) , and I happened to look at the bookshelf , and my eyes settled on a book about Paracelsus . |
| 7 | Well , when I was asked to speak to you today , I decided to look at the Oxford Dictionary 's definition of Community , which is joint ownership or liability . |
| 8 | I did look at the plans , and a book on sled dog training , and promptly forgot the whole thing until reminded two or three weeks before the promised delivery date . |
| 9 | I did look at the stripogram group because I was so horrified at the thought that they might do it again . |
| 10 | ‘ They put elderflowers in it , ’ I said looking at the label . |
| 11 | It 's when I , when I went to Poland it 's not two or three years , it was nineteen seventy three and I was , I was just coming in into the church and the one Witness was with me and we were going in er big town like Cracow , you know , we were going one way and there was a couple coming erm to meet us like you know in , in , in , on the road , and he was just wearing erm jeans and no shirt , but erm a big , big wooden cross on his chest just reaching really across his chest a wooden cross and then erm a safety pin in his nose and three safety pins attached to one another through his ears and this Witness with me walking down , she says just look at this couple and the girl was , wore the same dress she , she had the top on , you know , but again all sort of queer looking and she , this Witness with me , with me so , she said just look at the two that 's er coming aga to meet us and I said yes and I looked and I said look at the cross and she says yes , it used to be , they used to hang the criminals on the crosses and now the crosses hang on the criminals is n't that lovely , and now the cross is er all the criminals instead of the cross , oh yes |
| 12 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 13 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 14 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 15 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 16 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 17 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 18 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 19 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 20 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 21 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 22 | Mummy anyway , you know that you enjoyed looking at The Bounty ? |
| 23 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 24 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 25 | She kept looking at the wallscreen with distrust . |
| 26 | She kept looking at the telephone beside her bed , willing it to ring , dithering . |
| 27 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 28 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 29 | ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts . |
| 30 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |