Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to look at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I stopped momentarily to look at the old ‘ cenotaph ’ or what remained of it . |
| 3 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 4 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 5 | She tried not to look at the easy , mutual affection of Finn , Francie and the dumb woman . |
| 6 | Melanie had not been down to the work-room since her very first morning ; she tried not to look at the partially assembled puppets , hanged and dismembered , on the walls . |
| 7 | She tried not to look at the glass on the pink marble top of the wash-stand , empty , a sticky red stain at the bottom . |
| 8 | Busacher snorted , drank , and wandered over to look at the long table which had been set up right down the centre of Willi 's big living room . |
| 9 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 10 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 11 | Er many members of the public took advantage of the offer of the more detailed appraisal er and indeed came in to look at the detailed consultants reports . |
| 12 | The ever increasing army of tourists who came up to look at the scenery was growing . |
| 13 | He came across to look at the image open on my lectern : a wild man covered in shaggy green fur was fighting a little hon with a club . |
| 14 | Rachel froze on the bottom stair , heart stopping , and her head turned slowly to look at the pretty amah . |
| 15 | Jinny felt her breath stop as her eyes swivelled automatically to look at the Hare-woman . |
| 16 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 17 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 18 | I remember me getting up about three o'clock in the morning I heard the wind and I got up to look at the stack yard and start to put er bits of pit props and that into the nets and and and the wind was getting that strong the pit props was going flying over me head and I gave it up and made for and it 's certainly not a very high door at Greenspot but or a very big door but it took me all my time to get the door closed . |
| 19 | Others walked away to look at the island , and two men stayed to watch the boat . |
| 20 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 21 | thank you and if you walked around to look at the flat , would you find a lake and whacking big golf course in the middle of it ? |
| 22 | Having touched on the difficulties of the past year Mr Vernon went on to look at the remarkable successes : |
| 23 | She reached over to look at the bacon before saying , ‘ No ; thank you . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | He ate a dish of cornflakes while wandering around the kitchen and then went out to look at the Triumph , still parked in front of the house . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Zach threw back the lid in triumph and the twins and George gathered round to look at the contents . |
| 29 | Charles felt the blood trickling down his leg into his wet sock and , still keeping low behind a rock , rolled round to look at the wound . |
| 30 | 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 . |