Example sentences of "and [vb past] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 2 | She passed Seb Smith 's house one evening in the spring , taking a new route when exercising Midnight , and stopped to look over the hedge ( too high for nosers on foot ) into the Smith grounds . |
| 3 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 4 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 5 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 6 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 7 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 8 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 9 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 10 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 11 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 12 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 13 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 14 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 15 | She sprang to her feet and went to look in the mirror in the hall . |
| 16 | The aunt noticed , and went to look in the shed again . |
| 17 | Cézanne in particular had as a rule relied completely on visual models , and had looked at the subjects of his paintings with a concentration and intensity as great as that shown by the artists of the early Renaissance in their rediscovery of the natural world . |
| 18 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |
| 19 | Lowell returned to the cottage and stood looking at the portrait of Rose . |
| 20 | When she heard Matthew 's name , Miss Havisham stopped walking and stood looking at the speaker , who suddenly became silent . |
| 21 | Marjorie went over too and stood looking at the baby . |
| 22 | When she got into her house she poured herself a glass of sherry and stood looking into the garden , not wanting any supper . |
| 23 | He went back to the piano and sat looking at the keys — afraid to play . |
| 24 | The next time he left the digging he kept away from Fiver and sat looking at the bank , as though entirely concerned with the work . |
| 25 | She pulled into her drive and sat looking at the house . |