Example sentences of "looked at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He looked at the hillside across the river , where the moving masses had halted , still just out of range even for the most expert , to redress their line .
2 Gradually we re-evaluated ourselves as women and looked at the way we had always put ourselves down .
3 The dinner marked a Reporting Japan conference , which looked at the way western journalists report Japan .
4 As Jim Durcan , director of the leadership development programme at Ashridge Management College , observes : ‘ They looked at the way US auto factories , for example , were run compared to Japanese auto factories .
5 Lastly we looked at the way in which the form of words is affected by the sender 's knowledge and idea of the receiver 's knowledge .
6 Then Mr Isherwood looked at the FLORA & FAUNA section .
7 He looked at the cargo drones stowed away in their kennels , inspected the air and power connections , the airlocks either end , the internal controls for the doors and the roof .
8 I looked at the alarm clock .
9 Monica asked and looked at the wall map of the continent .
10 Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen .
11 She looked at the wall clock .
12 A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside .
13 Gabriel looked at the wall .
14 He stood on the deck of the ship , and looked at the sea .
15 He turned round and looked at the sea of faces .
16 He looked at the sea captain .
17 As they reached the little anchorage she looked at the sea with resignation .
18 was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down .
19 For a moment , she looked at the tomato ketchup on the walls and thought of Gazzer 's graffiti .
20 Henniker looked at the filing cabinets , and at a huge pile of folders on Mr. Marshall 's desk .
21 He looked at the trooper .
22 But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures .
23 Garvin looked at the passage again .
24 I in in the context of what Mr has just said , and I 'm really talking about the way he 's said it , but the way actually looked at the criteria , can I try to cos I would like to close on this particular question by one o'clock .
25 I would prefer it if er we looked at the criteria and the policy itself , but take useful information from this if if need be .
26 But when we looked at the location , our feeling was that it was close to the City and there were professional couples living nearby .
27 We went out there and we looked at the bone , we compared the bone and we returned that bone . ’
28 Sony were on hand to take the best of several live performances as the latest in a Puccini cycle which has already shed light on two rarities ( the early Le Villi , the late but surprisingly light La Rondine ) and will go on to Edgar — which Maazel had hoped he would record with Domingo at the time of the Fanciulla production but ‘ we looked at the schedule and realized , fortunately in time , that we were totally insane ’ .
29 And I handed over my day timing , now bear in mind this is all in pencil , and she looked at the schedule for May and said you 're not real busy this month , you know , you can take some time off .
30 In these conditions spectroscopy of the light emitted from the plasma indicated that the temperature was somewhere between 2 and 5 million K. ( The spectroscopists looked at the doppler widths of spectral lines .
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