Example sentences of "[verb] and look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
| 2 | and the police said all I have to do is phone the police and say well he wants to come and look round the property can I have a policeman there cos I do n't want |
| 3 | Since we needed someone to skin and look after the specimens we collected , we eventually employed a lanky youth called Yusuf German who had worked for a Greek taxidermist in the town . |
| 4 | Do n't worry , I 'll stay and look after the villa for you . ’ |
| 5 | After two more appearances , during which you are inconveniently looking the wrong way , you decide to go and look for the ghost . |
| 6 | Would you like to go and look for the ring dear ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd love to go and look through the window with you some time , ’ Benny offered . |
| 8 | ‘ I should like to go and look at the sea . ’ |
| 9 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 10 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 11 | Gerry had seen his face and they got to go and look at the mug shots and all that and er longlegs had been informed across the road because they 'd got er a camera that works and er they got in touch with the , they told the police about it and so they 're going over there to see if it 's been recorded you see . |
| 12 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 13 | I do n't know what alerted Kalchu to go and look in the stable . |
| 14 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 15 | It 's a great barn of a pub with a high ceiling , a balcony area and lots of glass in the south wall so you can drink and look at the Thames without having to smell it . |
| 16 | I know , Thérèse shouted : let's go and look at the kittens . |
| 17 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 18 | Well I think I 'd better go and look at the jam again . |
| 19 | ‘ I must go and look at the chicken pie , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 20 | I 'll just go and look at the underwear . |
| 21 | ‘ Let's go and look at the railway , ’ said Peter . |
| 22 | Can I have my ring back and then Christopher can go and look for the ring that he had on his head , he had a wooden one on his head , do you remember ? |
| 23 | My mum used to pick my hair off the pillow while I was asleep so that I would n't see how much I was losing , and at that time I was too ill to get up and go and look in the mirror . |
| 24 | Get those soon as poss , and I 'll go and look in the carpet shop |
| 25 | The river is placid here , where it becomes patient in its long run to the sea and decides to slow and look at the land it passes through . |
| 26 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 27 | they say that ad , it pays to advertise I mean , to me advertising has never done anything for me well I do n't think it has anyway but if it pays to advertise and look at the number of people that read the Express |
| 28 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 29 | She watched her mother turn and look towards the window before she said , ‘ She 's … she 's got to go . ’ |