Example sentences of "and [verb] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 2 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 3 | She paused in front of Barnes and Noble and pretended to look at the book display in the window . |
| 4 | He does n't come up to the desk straightaway , but gives me a nod and starts looking at the flowers , really closely , like he really knew about them . |
| 5 | This man with long greasy hair and a sleeping bag sort of rolled into a ball comes over and starts looking in the bins . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 8 | In Winter we 're digging and in summer we eat outside as much as possible and enjoy looking at the fruits of our labour . " |
| 9 | ‘ We all think maintenance is as important as landscaping , and enjoy looking after the gardens we have made , ’ she adds . |
| 10 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 11 | He took out pencil and paper and began looking through the letters . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | At last , I picked up the directory and began to look for the telephone number of a solicitor . |
| 14 | The King left the kitchen and began to look for the food . |
| 15 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 16 | If there are any problems then we should be able to say to ourselves , well let's go and have look at the project quality plan , what 's that tell us ? |
| 17 | And they were in this grotty council house now and they go back and they said and you saw them going back and saying look at the state of the garden . |
| 18 | We should have been over the pass by now and starting to look for the Hacienda Lucinda . |
| 19 | It is now daylight and another new day , as we continue to trudge along the road ; there is no conversation , it 's just heads down and continue to look at the boots of the man in front . |
| 20 | She opened her briefcase , and started looking through the papers in it . |
| 21 | They sat down and started to look through the movie tapes , Zambia interjecting the odd question here and there . |
| 22 | But then — if we are taking our time and stay to look at the town as a whole , walk around it in the cool and quiet of the evening when the shops are shut , and the traffic has gone home , and we can really see its contours and its bone-structure — other questions begin to arise in the mind , which even the best of guide-books does not answer . |
| 23 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 24 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 25 | He switched off the little girl on Terry Wogan and went to look for the Sturgeon . |
| 26 | She sprang to her feet and went to look in the mirror in the hall . |
| 27 | The aunt noticed , and went to look in the shed again . |
| 28 | You go to the bed , put down the umbrella and start looking in the drawers and cupboards built into the wall units surrounding the head of the bed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Society of Free Fishermen took over the interests of Newhaven and continued to look after the port for the next two centuries . |