Example sentences of "look around and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the rest of its length still inverted , it looks around and tests the air . |
| 2 | He looks around and stops smiling . |
| 3 | The conducting officer just looks around and assesses the result . |
| 4 | If he 'd looked around and fixed her with his melting eyes , she might have done . |
| 5 | The other men looked around and talked on the radio . |
| 6 | Hennessy was looking around and trying not to seem too pleased with himself . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , Jim , ’ he said , looking around and lowering his voice to a whisper , ‘ I 'm rich . ’ |
| 8 | unless he was looking around and see if it had been bumped in the night |
| 9 | It is usually not too difficult to look around and discover who some of their other suppliers are and to check with them as well if you consider this appropriate . |
| 10 | Durham to look around and meet some of the prisoners . |
| 11 | Women are welcome to drop in to look around and meet staff and trainees . |
| 12 | In the Science books , children are encouraged to look around and observe how things work . |
| 13 | You do n't have to look around and say ‘ that needs doing ’ because it 's done . |
| 14 | From my present perspective twenty years on ( whether grown up or not ) , it is interesting to look around and see how far the same comment would be appropriate today . |
| 15 | It it 's one of those unfortunate things that I mean I think we 've we 've got to look around and see what we can do about . |
| 16 | We arrived at Bury St Edmunds with three hours to look around and have lunch . |
| 17 | Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing . |
| 18 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 19 | Mr Burchell suggested that if a social need was seen , then we should look around and see what support was available . |
| 20 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 21 | Thus we might look around and point to something red and say " This is coloured red " ; and then , perhaps , in order to forestall any tendency to mistake the word for the name of a particular shade of red , gesture towards another thing of a similar but not quite the same hue , and add " And that is red too " . |
| 22 | She sat watching him for a moment , hoping he would look around and smile ; but he kept his back turned to her and continued to gaze abstractedly out the window . |
| 23 | But if we sort of , you know , she said , you know look around and arrange something yourself |
| 24 | Visitors look around and find themselves at a party , surrounded by chatting people , but their journey takes on a new twist as they glass is tipped , a face looms over the rim and they are poured into the drinkers throat . |
| 25 | I look around and notice that the rehearsal room is becoming unusually crowded . |
| 26 | Or look around and see what there is going in the , in the market . |
| 27 | There was no doubt that Joanna was inclined to be rather blunt , but , reminding herself that they were equal partners , she said cheerfully , ‘ Go on in , look around and do your stuff . |
| 28 | look around and think tt oh God . |
| 29 | He looked around and felt happier . |
| 30 | He looked around and felt so dizzy he had to steady himself . |