Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She squared herself , and moved along to look into the nearest of the rooms . |
| 2 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 3 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 4 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 5 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 6 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 7 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 8 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 9 | Charles tried not to look like the outcast he was feeling and quickened his pace to simulate important last minute business at the Officers ' Mess . |
| 10 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 11 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 12 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |
| 13 | We visited the Legion 's museum the following day and wandered round looking at the different flags of the units which had fought all over the world for 150 years . |
| 14 | . I 'd better look under the big light . |
| 15 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She dawdled along to look into the garden of 45 . |
| 18 | She 'd fought the sensation as long as she could and then she 'd done something she 'd never done before , she 'd deliberately looked into the sea of faces , looked unerringly to the rear of the crowded room … |
| 19 | She 'd probably looked around the flat and compared it with the two shabby and incomplete rooms that she 'd just left , and the first foundations of the barrier would have been laid . |
| 20 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 21 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 22 | Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah . |
| 23 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 24 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 25 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 26 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 27 | The front page of the People 's Daily and every other major national newspaper last week featured a picture of the new Politburo standing committee meeting with actors from a People 's Liberation Army theatre troupe made up to look like the dead founding fathers . |
| 28 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 29 | Others walked away to look at the island , and two men stayed to watch the boat . |
| 30 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |