Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] look at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 2 | How lovely , thought Winnie , letting her knitting fall and looking at the leaping flames , if she agreed ! |
| 3 | She stopped and looked at the garden ; inside the square was a circle of flower beds . |
| 4 | She stopped and looked at the other three who were scrutinising her in amused silence . |
| 5 | I stopped and looked at the big house . |
| 6 | It was a very nice day out actually , and everything from serious riders who just went up and down and the most energetic one did a hundred miles , to families who treated it , took a picnic and stopped and looked at the badger tunnels . |
| 7 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 8 | This type of debate can only be resolved when looking at the functions in some detail . |
| 9 | The possible implications of this development are best considered when looking at the more general direction which the control on discretion is , and should be , taking . |
| 10 | I conclude that looking at the matter from the point of view of expense incurred and not from the point of view of loss to the employer no expense could be regarded as having been incurred as a result of the decision of the authorities of the college to provide this particular benefit to the taxpayer . |
| 11 | However , it was said that looking at the employee 's base was not the be-all and end-all . |
| 12 | So , as part of the briefing process , Orpington employees and their families were taken on day trip coach tours to Stevenage so that they could visit the site where the new offices were being built and look at the types of houses and facilities available in the area . |
| 13 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 14 | They ca n't stay and look at the , that child all the time can they ? |
| 15 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 16 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 17 | ‘ I should like to go and look at the sea . ’ |
| 18 | We did , however , feel it was necessary to go and look at the because we are very aware of , of , of the lighting that affects those properties who 've been very patient with the amount of development that 's gone on there . |
| 19 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 20 | Like him to go and look at the one at er the at er which seems to be a successful one |
| 21 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 22 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 23 | There is also a yard where one could at one time sit and look at the adjacent buildings through the barbed wire . |
| 24 | Monica asked and looked at the wall map of the continent . |
| 25 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 26 | He turned and looked at the display of cakes on the long table . |
| 27 | She paused a moment , turned and looked at the line of narrow drawers , read the label , then weighed out two ounces of loose tobacco . |
| 28 | The woman turned and looked at the speaker , and there was scorn in her expression , but she said nothing until she turned on Agnes again and said , ‘ How bad is he , lass ? ’ |
| 29 | The child stared towards it as if in recognition of something held in memory ; then she turned and looked at the old woman , who was sitting on the couch unlacing her boots , and she said , ‘ You have a garden . ’ |
| 30 | It was so seldom that Aggie heard herself addressed by her surname that she turned and looked at the nun , but the woman 's eyelids were lowered as if in shame ; then she inclined her head towards the woman sitting behind the desk before turning and closing the door quietly behind her . |