Example sentences of "[vb mod] look [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Burchell suggested that if a social need was seen , then we should look around and see what support was available . |
| 2 | A long-time adherent to the general principle that he should look around and see areas where he could help , or stir up some kind of improvement , he had lately become more willing to risk controversy . |
| 3 | Now that the Batty deal is finally complete , maybe we should look ahead and see whats ahead for us . |
| 4 | Economists should look ahead and use both micro- and macroeconomics to throw light , for example , on ‘ how , where , and in what form ’ the workers released by technological progress over the next ten years will be employed . |
| 5 | I feel I should look about and see streams of groups being angry and hateful — but it 's just not happening at all . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I was obviously disappointed , but as always in football , I must look forward and hope I can quickly get back into the game . |
| 7 | But I would say to each of your listeners I sure you know people who find a tranquility , a centredness , a source of strength and confidence in their religious faith , they are the representatives of what religion can do , not the Ayatollahs , and not the fanatics , and not the people on television , but the people who spend their lives trying to be good and helpful , and one day they 'll look around and realise that happiness has snuck in the back door when they were n't even looking for it . |
| 8 | ‘ Promise you 'll look in and say hello when you have time . ’ |
| 9 | They might look round and smooth , but they 're mighty hard . |
| 10 | Thus we might look around and point to something red and say " This is coloured red " ; and then , perhaps , in order to forestall any tendency to mistake the word for the name of a particular shade of red , gesture towards another thing of a similar but not quite the same hue , and add " And that is red too " . |
| 11 | While purists may look on and dislike what the engineers have done to the looks of the Gooney , it looks as through this surgery may help keep the old girl flying commercially well towards the type 's centenary ! |
| 12 | So I could look up and see the sky . |
| 13 | He leant across the back seat so that he could look up and see her face . |
| 14 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 15 | And always , on a clear day , you could look up and see the magnificent , snow-capped Alps . |
| 16 | However it was all in a good cause and , like a lot of these things , fun when you left off and could look back and laugh . |
| 17 | ‘ You could look further and fare worse . ’ |
| 18 | From here , up in the windy pier gardens , you could look down and watch the trippers . |
| 19 | You used to look in and see if he was awake . |
| 20 | The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ . |
| 21 | I half hoped she would look up and wave , though of course the idea was ridiculous . |
| 22 | I thought I would look up and see King Tut staring down with a hacksaw blade in his hand . ’ |
| 23 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 24 | Then he would look up and see her . |
| 25 | She leaned out of the window , half-terrified , half-hopeful that he would look up and see her . |
| 26 | Whenever he caught the eye of one of them , the boy would look away and allow his conversation to die . |
| 27 | She sat watching him for a moment , hoping he would look around and smile ; but he kept his back turned to her and continued to gaze abstractedly out the window . |
| 28 | Then , seeing the hinged clouds fold down to reveal God and all His angels , the wife would look once and look again and stand up and point and clutch her apron to her mouth … |
| 29 | Later , his parents would look back and see this moment as an early warning of the nightmare that was to consume them . |
| 30 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |