Example sentences of "[adv prt] to look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She dawdled along to look into the garden of 45 .
2 Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no .
3 Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys .
4 in to look at the job did you ?
5 The C.C. said that they called him in to look at the body .
6 With his second cup of tea in front of him , he sat down to look at the newspaper .
7 ‘ And you 're not having this dress , ’ Nora said , bending down to look at the price tag .
8 Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin .
9 Then they drove away and Carolyn carried with her the sight of her mother 's tense white face leaning down to look through the window at her .
10 I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files …
11 And I had one rehearsal of two Bach pieces which were really difficult and I was com , feeling completely frantic during the break in rehearsal , and went over to look at the music and some fellow called Don bounded over to me and said , oh you ca n't be you know you sh ca n't be looking at that now , ba , la dee da dee da !
12 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 .
13 ‘ 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 .
14 I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it .
15 She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you .
16 He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy .
17 He leaned over to look into the pool and , losing his balance , fell into the deep water .
18 Suddenly , Della turned round and ran over to look in the glass on the wall .
19 The position with regard to face-to-face transactions is considered first , before going on to look at the position in relation to impersonal stock market deals .
20 The supplement goes on to look at the law covering the conservation of protected buildings and areas , reporting on incentives like the Town Scheme grant , which can provide 40 per cent grants for repair and restoration work from combined funding between local authorities and English Heritage .
21 Before going on to look at the Government 's proposals in detail , we want to underline our serious concern over the threat to strategic minerals planning associated with the proposed reorganisation of local government in Wales .
22 It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries .
23 You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective .
24 Part 4 goes on to look at the training of parents in skills necessary for successful completion of these steps .
25 He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees .
26 I hold them up to look through the paper .
27 ‘ He 's obviously been brought up to look on the doctor as the bogey man . ’
28 Now a Middlesbrough Council working party has been set up to look at the problem .
29 In addition to the Education and Training Working Party mentioned above , a working party ( Chairman : QC ) has been set up to look at the way ahead .
30 But such was the power of those two softly spoken words that Ronni found her head jerking up to look at the speaker , barely aware of her brother 's muttered response as he hoisted her cases up on to the jetty .
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