Example sentences of "[pron] look at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 2 | It 's a bit like asking why someone looks at the sky or watches the sunset . ’ |
| 3 | Thus ‘ I look at the sun ’ and ‘ I sit in the sun ’ use the English word ‘ sun ’ in two different ways . |
| 4 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 5 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 6 | I look at the dress . |
| 7 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 8 | I just try to make sure I look at the person I 'm talking to , and show them I 'm interested . |
| 9 | I look at the back of her head for a minute . |
| 10 | I look at the scrap heap , scrap for that then , might as well make it look as good as possible , even if I get two five for it , I 'm sticking two , two grand in there , well we 'll make it , we 'll stick the lot in the joint account and keep it there |
| 11 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 12 | I know what I see when I look at the grass and I have been told that the colour is called ‘ green ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ He knows I look at the forest , ’ she said . |
| 14 | ‘ Not the way I look at the moment ! |
| 15 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 16 | I look at the temperature controller . |
| 17 | I look at the carpet . |
| 18 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 19 | Do you want me to send someone to look at the plough ? ’ |
| 20 | Nor can I look at the way in which this view of faith and reason has influenced contemporary Christian thinking , both mainstream and among the evangelical or fundamentalist groups where it is most in evidence . |
| 21 | ‘ Could I look at the equipment ? ’ |
| 22 | Why the hell should I look at the roof except to see if there was a satellite TV dish . |
| 23 | Can I look at the telly ? |
| 24 | I looked at the line-up listed in the programme and at the stop-press late additions : Everything But The Girl , two of The Communards ; Harry Enfield ; The Oblivion Boys , the list went on . |
| 25 | I looked at the clock and it was 10.40 . |
| 26 | I looked at the clock . |
| 27 | Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there . |
| 28 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
| 29 | Well I looked at the clock , it said twenty to eight , I thought sod it I ai n't getting up . |
| 30 | I looked at the ball , looked at the pin and thought , ‘ There 's only one place for it to go . |