Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] to look at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 3 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 4 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 5 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 6 | I had only to look at the farmer 's face to know that the cow was worse . |
| 7 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 8 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 12 | thank you and if you walked around to look at the flat , would you find a lake and whacking big golf course in the middle of it ? |
| 13 | She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true . |
| 16 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He resolved not to look at the ground again until he felt his 'chute open . |
| 21 | With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper . |