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

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1 And she said he 's not out of the woods yet , but , I 'll give you a collar , if he 's naughty , very crafty , and then I looked through the crack in the door and his looking .
2 I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand .
3 Then I looked at the rest of myself , and all the rest of me was a …
4 Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car .
5 Then I looked at the table .
6 Then I look in the mirror and think : ‘ You 're not Miss World , kiddo ’ , and I thank God that someone did n't determine that my appearance did n't come up to scratch .
7 you say oh yes you can have it and then you look on the training and it 's not there
8 But you tend to think that 's what a girl should look like — blonde hair and blue eyes — and then you look in the mirror and you 've got short Afro hair , and that 's when you maybe start thinking that 's the only way to be .
9 ‘ I could n't take it seriously at first because it seemed so ridiculous , but then you look in the statute book and realise the maximum penalty for this is seven years .
10 Then she looked beyond the board , and her heart almost stopped beating .
11 and then they look at the caravan !
12 Then he looked at the Earl .
13 and then he looked at the man .
14 Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself .
15 and then he looked at the row of trolleys tangled in the front of the car .
16 Then he looked at the jury , and said very loudly : ‘ Sarah did not buy the toothpaste .
17 Then he looked at the linen she was holding across her arms , and she followed his gaze and said , as she motioned her hand towards the door , ‘ This … this is our house too .
18 parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything
19 Then he looked along the rope .
20 Then he looked under the table , ‘ Oh no — it was the table leg .
21 Then he looked in the pram and saw Steffine and put the knife on her face .
22 Then he looked in the car , saw my father crumpled up and started to speak .
23 then he looked in the baby 's bouncy chair .
24 Then he looked after the income tax , which was a bit of a headache .
25 Brookhead Smith loaded the cabinet with the gramophone inside it on to the back of his cart , then he looked around the shed to see if there were any more records lying about .
26 Then he looked round the room .
27 And then he looks at the priest , and adds , ‘ Now you tell me the truth …
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