Example sentences of "look [adv prt] and [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 2 | He had looked down and watched the body trembling and kicking . |
| 3 | The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams . |
| 4 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 5 | With the rest of its length still inverted , it looks around and tests the air . |
| 6 | The conducting officer just looks around and assesses the result . |
| 7 | Cameron was shaking with laughter , looking on and making no move to help . |
| 8 | looking down and seeing the young man again . |
| 9 | SUMMERCHILD : A feeling of — I don t know — looking down and seeing the world stretching away over the horizon . |
| 10 | Usually Pete liked to look down and watch the traffic from the window in the living room but today he bobbed about in the kitchen until Mum filled the basin with hot soapy water and scrubbed the driving wheel clean . |
| 11 | From here , up in the windy pier gardens , you could look down and watch the trippers . |
| 12 | He was so involved in these thoughts that when the school finally loomed into view he failed to notice it and only when Tock poked him in the side did he look up and see the gigantic sight . |
| 13 | He was over Charing Cross Road and well into the Square before some instinct of recognition made him look up and see the place which was still the jewel of London , the haven of fantasies , the last known post of security , the Crystal Rooms . |
| 14 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 15 | So I could look up and see the sky . |
| 16 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 17 | They were quite far apart , it was light but still felt enclosed : you could look up and see the high tops of the pines swaying in a wind that you could n't feel down on the ground . |
| 18 | And always , on a clear day , you could look up and see the magnificent , snow-capped Alps . |
| 19 | Indeed , just as with a demonstrative , so with the definite description in ( 18 ) , the addressee is invited to look up and identify the referent . |
| 20 | Maxim wished he had made the call himself even if George had had to look up and dial the number for him . |
| 21 | This enables anyone to look up and inspect the patent specification to determine its scope . |
| 22 | Now and then , when the night sky is starless , I look up and form the hilarious suspicion that the world will soon start making sense . |
| 23 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 24 | You know you look out and see the sunshine and the illusion of warmth cos you 're , we 're in the car . |
| 25 | As described in Section 3.3 , if it is possible for real particles to pass through them , then it will be possible for those particles to subsequently look back and observe the naked singularity in region IV . |
| 26 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 27 | And maybe in a few years people will look back and see the things that we tried to do , and hopefully respect them . ’ |
| 28 | A good photographer should , if necessary , be able to produce good pictures without a previous visit , but he or she will certainly produce better results if they have had time to look round and plan the most effective camera angles . |
| 29 | I looked in and had the biggest shock of my life . |
| 30 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |