Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to look [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned to look at the young man beside me , his long fingered hands resting on the steering wheel . |
| 2 | ‘ I turned to look at the retreating figures of my two friends , feeling unbearably isolated , and went to eat alone in the cafeteria . ’ |
| 3 | I decided to look at the local statistics for asthma deaths in West Cumbria from the public health department for the years 1980 to 1989 . |
| 4 | Aye I had to look through the whole lot of them . |
| 5 | ‘ No , I 've been to the office , and I wanted to look at the projected sales figures for this quarter . |
| 6 | To put it more simply , I wanted to look at the reciprocal interaction between individuals and their immediate social world . |
| 7 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 8 | She turned to look at the rear clock . |
| 9 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 10 | She decided to look on the positive side . |
| 11 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 12 | She liked to look at the dreadful toxins through the jewelled prison of their coloured glass bottles : ruby red , peridot green , indigo blue . |
| 13 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 14 | I returned to Russia recently with my dear friend Ashkenazy and we went to look at the Central School of Music in Moscow , our educational base for so many years , and there it is , a sorry sight of rubble , locked doors and broken windows . |
| 15 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 16 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 17 | As the light failed , it came to look like the mysterious seas on the moon . |
| 18 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 19 | Then he decided to look around the little school . |
| 20 | ‘ He chose to look for the spiritual through the physical , like Rimbaud and Kerouac . |