Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] the clock " in BNC.
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1 | I looked at the clock and it was 10.40 . |
2 | I looked at the clock . |
3 | Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there . |
4 | And when I looked at the clock , I was on time and . |
5 | Well I looked at the clock , it said twenty to eight , I thought sod it I ai n't getting up . |
6 | yeah and , and you look at the clock at five too , five too and that 's it |
7 | She looked at the clock . |
8 | She looked at the clock . |
9 | She looked at the clock . |
10 | She looked at the clock and noticed it was twenty-past one — everyone was in now except Michael . |
11 | She looked at the clock . |
12 | She looked at the clock . |
13 | She looked at the clock when she got in . |
14 | She looked at the clock , frustrated to find it was only a little after eleven . |
15 | She looked at the clock . |
16 | He looked at the clock near the door . |
17 | He looked at the clock . |
18 | 8 When preceded by an interrogative pronoun ( I do n't know what to do ) or adverb ( Tell me where to go ) , or by a conjunction ( He looked at the clock , as if it was time to go ) , an infinitive with to is often equivalent to a dependent clause : What to do ; What am I to do ? |
19 | He looked at the clock on the wall . |
20 | He looked at the clock . |
21 | He looked at the clock on the wall . |
22 | He looked at the clock |