Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned to look through the windows . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry , truly I am , but I had to look after the boys . |
| 3 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 4 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |
| 5 | In other words , if you want to explain social phenomena , you got to look for the explanations in society . |
| 6 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 7 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 8 | You had to look inside the shoes to be able to judge the different thicknesses of sole and heel . |
| 9 | we went to Trafalgar Square and we stopped to look at the pigeons and we 'd moved on and I , I suddenly realised I had n't got Vicky with me , so I looked all round , could n't see him , had to go right back to Trafalgar Square and he was still looking at the pigeons |
| 10 | He would spend as much time as he could at Hillmarden , but the strain was beginning to tell and , guiltily , he came to look on the nights when he was able to stay at the London flat as a blessed escape . |
| 11 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 12 | He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare . |
| 13 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 14 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |