Example sentences of "[adv prt] to look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 2 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 3 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 11 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 12 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 13 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 14 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 15 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 16 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 17 | Well no not really because erm it , it was a private company as you can understand er , I can I ca n't really explain it everyone seemed to be pulling together you know that was the last thing you thought of , fifth columnists , things like that although it was they used to er , every now and again they used to send government national service officers round to look at the personnel and the structure of the working and if they thought anybody was superfluous to requirements they 'd get the papers soon after to go into the army or the services yeah , yeah , that is true and that happened , used to happen in factories all round the area , it was called the Essential Works Order . |
| 18 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |