Example sentences of "[adv prt] to look " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pestered anyone who came along to look at his back and examine it for spots . |
| 2 | ‘ Mind if I bring Bill Birkett along to look at Heirloom Crag ? ’ asked Rick Graham . |
| 3 | She dawdled along to look into the garden of 45 . |
| 4 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 5 | When we move in here , we get this guy come along to look at it , he say well this machine the er the Germans erm they 've really the pump is th is really easy to go , and so I can change your pump for you but l in your washing machine washing machine . |
| 6 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 7 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 8 | I 've sent my sister in to look after the other lads . ’ |
| 9 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ Dr Jones 'll be in to look at that woman directly , Paddy , ’ she told the old porter as he ambled up . |
| 11 | It seemed that she was the mother , but her sister , a prostitute , had locked her in to look after her children while she was out ‘ on the game ’ . |
| 12 | Then she asked if I would consider returning home with someone living in to look after me . |
| 13 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 14 | If the carer moves in to look after a couple ( eg elderly parents ) on the death of one spouse the tenancy goes to the surviving spouse . |
| 15 | Anne had continued to visit the Misses Dolan frequently even after Margaret had moved in to look after them , and been very happy to see her old friends so well cared for and so delighted with Margaret 's lively little girl . |
| 16 | Women are welcome to drop in to look around and meet staff and trainees . |
| 17 | The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body . |
| 18 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 19 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 20 | I took Henry back to my flat and asked him to wait outside while I went in to look . |
| 21 | ‘ When you first came in to look around I half thought I ought to mention it . |
| 22 | I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because |
| 23 | Perhaps I could suggest her getting someone in to look after him and she could come for half time . |
| 24 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 25 | ‘ So on that basis I am really encouraging as many people as possible to call in to look round . |
| 26 | I mean they must find they must find it expensive because I mean if they 're keeping that house on they have to have somebody going in to look at it , wo n't they ? |
| 27 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 28 | in to look at the job did you ? |
| 29 | and that that 's why the Americans came into the war , they did n't come into the war to look after us , they came in to look after their own interest in the |
| 30 | They take groups of school children in to look at experiments and techniques that are far too complicated perhaps , expensive perhaps , or even dangerous , to run in a school — like X-ray crystallography and infra-red spectrometry . |