Example sentences of "he [verb] look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lies looking at the waves touch the land , crying for his cousin . |
| 2 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 3 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 4 | He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare . |
| 5 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 6 | He kept looking along the lines of men beside him . |
| 7 | He had looked at the children 's modelling and their puzzling drawings of oversized objects — single , primary colours and minute figures dwarfed by the chaotic world around them . |
| 8 | He had looked beyond the barriers which play a large part in the landscape of the area , fences and ‘ keep out ’ signs often barring the public from discovery . |
| 9 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 10 | I wonder if he 's looked in the minutes of the council er for this time twelve months ago er when we proposed a very similar amendment to the one that 's on the board there , the figures are reduced er but certainly lots of the areas are actually there and in fact if he looked back even further in the minutes he 'll see that it bears a striking resemblance to what we actually proposed on the fourteenth of February nineteen ninety one . |
| 11 | He stayed looking at the holes in the ceiling for a while . |
| 12 | He did n't look at me , he stood looking at the doors . |