Example sentences of "and look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people with AIDS have to spend long periods of time in hospital unless there is someone at home who can help and look after them . |
| 2 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 3 | I 'll have to get out and look for it , he said . |
| 4 | Dasha actually wants to come and look after Stavrogin , as actually as Svidrigailov is bored — ‘ especially now ’ , he says , as America looms . |
| 5 | To confirm this we have to pause and look back from the road to Aubeterre as it climbs the eastern slope of the valley of the Tude , just as Pound must have paused in 1911 ; and then we see that , whereas the modern town of Chalais is in the river bottom , old Chalais , a manorial village grouped round the gate of the château , does indeed stand on the ridge behind , so that the tops of the tallest poplars by the river wave just below the walls of the château . |
| 6 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 7 | Well , I can assure you that if you were to go and look it up , you 'd find complaints against policemen in Easton . |
| 8 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 9 | He asks , explains Odd-Knut , why , should he want a picture of his hut on the wall when he can go outside and look at it ? |
| 10 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 11 | AFTER THE end of the last act our host began to sweat and look pale … |
| 12 | ‘ When I was a boy in Harlan County we were real poor and every morning I used to wake up and look out of my bedroom window at this mountain called Gray 's Knob . |
| 13 | At every gig we went to , there was a woman there — that 's what we wanted , we liked to see women hanging around the star attraction of the group because he was good-looking and he did stand out and look good on stage . |
| 14 | They 've found her car , too — I 'll have to go and look at it before they take it away . ’ |
| 15 | People would stare and look away , but he did n't let them off with that . |
| 16 | ‘ I ‘ d better go and look for him , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ I need someone with brains like you , ’ he said to Simon , not daring to turn and look into his face . |
| 18 | ‘ Do come and look , Charity . ’ |
| 19 | Later on , after a warm bath and enveloped in one of Aunt Bedelia 's flannelette nightgowns , I began to relax and look forward to the Jubilee . |
| 20 | Suddenly , she would stop and look towards our house because she had sensed Sally calling her . |
| 21 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 22 | I wanted a chance to go and look in Vic 's shed . ’ |
| 23 | At first she sympathised a bit , but basically she thinks it 's because I dare to walk around and look people in the eye — I 'm too challenging or flirty or something . |
| 24 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'll go and look in a boat . ’ |
| 26 | There was also mild throat-clearing as Mr Major strode off towards the largest car ferry in Europe with the words : ‘ Let's go and look at this boat ! ’ |
| 27 | We will carry out pilot projects for the ‘ foyer ’ concept , whereby young people are given a place in a hostel if in exchange they give a commitment to train and look for work . |
| 28 | They arranged to separate and look for Mould and Mcduff to help them . |
| 29 | I hope to build a V8 Land Rover mainly to be used on road so mpg and mph are important , but it must sound and look great ( wheels , tyres , etc. ) , do well off road and out perform my dad 's new Land Cruiser II Please could you give me some advice on model , diff ratio , tyres , etc. and initial purchase price . |
| 30 | There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together . |