Example sentences of "check the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He unfolded his incredibly long legs , arranged a white scarf at his throat and checked the mirror . |
| 2 | Robyn checked the mirror , made sure no flesh was visible from the neck down , drew back the bolt and opened the door . |
| 3 | Baker-Finch had had an unlucky start by spinning back into the burn at the 1st , and when I checked the leaderboard we were a stroke behind Watson with Langer , so there was all to play for . |
| 4 | Taking the plate gently from him she placed it in the sink , then checked the turkey one last time , turned the gas down as low as it would go and made her way up to bed . |
| 5 | Michael Lee checked the address on the scrap of paper and then the name plate pinned high to the wall of the tenement . |
| 6 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 7 | I checked the documentation which implied that a 2Mb version of this machine needed to have all four SIMM sockets occupied for it to work . |
| 8 | So he went up and had a scan and they s they checked it and of course when they checked the scan they noticed that his kid one of his kidneys had n't been functioning for a long time . |
| 9 | She checked the date on the Amex slip against the entry for Dublin in the diary . |
| 10 | She checked the date . |
| 11 | At the holding point we selected flap fifteen , exercised the airbrakes out and back again ( they take a second or two to run each way ) , zeroed the tail trim , turned on the heaters for the twin pitot heads ahead of the windscreen and checked the cockpit for red lights , any of which means no-go . |
| 12 | She turned to the stove and checked the damper . |
| 13 | Back in the cockpit , he checked the course , then fed cartridges into the magazine of one gun . |
| 14 | She checked the floor for loose boards . |
| 15 | A doctor arrived and checked the test again . |
| 16 | He checked the state of his teeth . |
| 17 | He slipped out of the door and checked the corridor . |
| 18 | Had Angell and Pownall carried out their instructions and only checked the compliance of the designs with the conditions , much of the criticism of the judges disappears . |
| 19 | He listened for a moment to their angry shouts and the occasional thud of their rattan canes , then he stood up and jammed his pith helmet squarely on his head ; automatically his hand checked the presence of his bone-handled knife in its sheath . |
| 20 | He checked the kitchen , inspecting the cupboards , and underneath the drawers . |
| 21 | Er , I then went back er back down the passageway er into the lounge , checked the kitchen checked that the rest of the firearms officers were were okay . |
| 22 | Next morning I checked the typing for errors and sent it back for correction . |
| 23 | When patrolling policemen checked the pub they found a rear window smashed and could hear Joyce and another man inside . |
| 24 | Gerry reached across , checked the gearchange was at neutral then turned the ignition key . |
| 25 | They 've traced former clients through her address books , and checked the possibility that she was murdered by a serial killer who 's struck elsewhere in Britain . |
| 26 | Coming back from this explosion he checked the damage — in the tradition of his Corps — and heard the gurgle of water flowing into the dry-dock . |
| 27 | I threw my bag into Armstrong 's boot and checked the sleeping-bag I always kept there in a polythene bag . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've known that since the first day Gomez came on board and checked the Loran navigation worked . |
| 29 | As a long shot — just in case Lucretia Grant owned two homes — she also checked the name of Grant . |
| 30 | He would float these across the kitchen to her while implacably she checked the meat roasting in the oven for lunch . |