Example sentences of "took a look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took a look inside : computer printouts of columns of figures . |
| 2 | He took a look at this picture of a black bloke with this dick practically touching his knees and said , Glen , fancy an extra tutorial one day soon ? |
| 3 | Before I left , I took a look around Pat 's kitchen . |
| 4 | She banked up the fire and took a look round the room before she closed the door . |
| 5 | After the next fifty yards I drew it out and took a look at the bad news . |
| 6 | She took a look at this man before her and summed him up in five seconds flat : he was from the country ; he was perspiring because he was wearing his one and only suit which was too heavy for the weather ; his shoes were outrageous , huge , clod-hopping things , but at least they had been polished ; his hands were heavy , his fingers thick as sausages so he was definitely a man of the land ; despite all that , he was quite polite and well-spoken though with a strong accent that she could identify as being Scottish but from which part of Scotland she could not say ; for some reason she was quite sure he was a liar . |
| 7 | Once on board , I took a look below , where many men folk were as comfortably spread on the saloon sofas as circumstances would permit , and finding a vacant space sufficiently large to stretch my full complement of feet and inches on , I tried to fall asleep before we got into rough water ; but with the first movement of the screw , I was on my feet and on deck , having a view of the hills round Gairloch as they slept in the mist of night ere the faint streaks of dawn disturbed their repose . |
| 8 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 9 | Catriona took a look at the brown liquid and thought , ‘ I 'm nineteen years old , I 've failed all my O-grades , and I 'm a disgrace to my family . |
| 10 | Last month we took a look at the essential preparation that should proceed any purchase of an aquarium for any house . |
| 11 | Tom took a look at his face and groaned inwardly . |
| 12 | We took a look at the going hourly rate for a range of trades and services to see how they compared with Mr Carter-Ruck 's . |
| 13 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 14 | Adam took a look out of the window of the bedroom that had been Hilbert 's . |
| 15 | After initial catastrophe , he stopped , took a look at the lazy lukeheads around him , then modified their subsistence into schick . |
| 16 | The Captain took a look at the car 's registration number as his men scraped the mud and twigs away . |
| 17 | He took a look at the map in case anything was marked on it . |
| 18 | Joe took a look at the front page of the paper . |
| 19 | I took a look at it . ’ |
| 20 | I remember this time after school there was a fight between blacks and whites ; I went and stayed in the toilets for a half-hour thinking what I should do and that 's when I really took a look at myself and thought about the white kids calling me names and the black kids saying ‘ come on ’ so I said ‘ all right ’ . |
| 21 | She took a look over her shoulder and saw a horse and rider behind her and at full stretch , but with the sun in her eyes , Artemis could n't distinguish who it was . |
| 22 | I came inside , took a look around and then got beat over the head . |
| 23 | I took a look at the display . |
| 24 | We took a look around . |
| 25 | On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box . |
| 26 | I took a look at Dell 's 33MHz 433/L machine , which comes with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 pre-installed and a mouse . |
| 27 | ‘ It took a look at me and then melted away into the shadows . |
| 28 | There was an embarrassed smile as Leary said : ‘ Oh no , I heard he was there so I walked through the harbour and took a look at it . |
| 29 | ‘ I came to tell you something , but no one was here so I got in and took a look . ’ |
| 30 | I took a look at Columbia . |