Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] look at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I avoided looking at the headless pigeon in the gutter . |
| 2 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 3 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 4 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 5 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 7 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 8 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 9 | She turned to look at the rear clock . |
| 10 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 11 | " Do n't be sorry , " he said , " I quite enjoyed it , " She looked up briefly then , smiling uncertainly , as though she did n't believe him , He licked his lips , moved forward , put one hand out and touched hers where it gripped the glass , She kept looking at the empty glass avoiding his face . |
| 12 | She liked to look at the dreadful toxins through the jewelled prison of their coloured glass bottles : ruby red , peridot green , indigo blue . |
| 13 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 14 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 15 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 16 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 17 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 18 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |