Example sentences of "[pers pn] and look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She said , ‘ Every year I end up taking a pair of rubber gloves with me and looking after the children , and every year I end up coming home feeling exhausted .
2 Then , tiring of their unfriendly glances , she turned her back on them and looked across the street .
3 Alexandra stood between them and looked down the lane , sunk between high fields , and saw the church tower rising among leafless trees and the blue slate roofs that clustered round it .
4 Wiping it away with his handkerchief , he closed his eyes , opened them and looked round the room , then back at the newsprint in front of him , as if he might have been dreaming or have imagined it .
5 ‘ Better than your eyesight , ’ said the old woman , standing next to him and looking at the grey in his hair .
6 He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside .
7 She sat down in front of it and looked at the half-page she had typed that morning .
8 He went to the door , opened it and looked down the steps expecting to see the burly figure of the constable emerge and climb the steps to meet him , but to John 's surprise there was nobody at all .
9 I vote we walk into it and look for the summit under the water . ’
10 But I mean I think the feeling of the the miners were out for a year I mean time and time again I 've heard people say , Oh how d how do they do it and look at the money they 're sending us and look at what they 're doing for us and how ho .
11 He moved between us and looked at the bowls of deep colour , and little puffs of red and yellow dotted about the draining-board to dry .
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