Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] to look [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went on to look at ligand gated channels , and in particular three different classes , acetylcholine gated , glycine gated , G A B A gated . |
| 2 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 3 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 4 | He went off to look for coffee . |
| 5 | Then I crept forward to look at Granny . |
| 6 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 7 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 8 | Mr Lawrence chaired the steering group set up to look at life profit reporting and there is no doubt that he and the Prudential are the driving force behind the new proposals . |
| 9 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 10 | She refused even to look at Ace , although her body clamoured with a painful intensity as soon as he came to stand next to her . |