Example sentences of "[vb past] to look at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She stretched with remembered delight , then turned to look at the man lying so quietly next to her . |
| 32 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 33 | McIllvanney said angrily , then turned to look at the yard where a silver-grey stretch limo , its windows tinted black against the sun , rolled ponderously to park beside the stairs to his office . |
| 34 | Behind him a car passed and he turned to look at the occupants . |
| 35 | The Doctor and Lacuna turned to look at the screens . |
| 36 | Blake turned to look at the Doctor . |
| 37 | Patrick turned to look at the street , wondering what had brought Collins here ; but it seemed just another poor tenement side street . |
| 38 | He was nearing the top of the hill and turned to look at the view as an excuse for a breather . |
| 39 | When they were in the woods Tess turned to look at the house . |
| 40 | He turned to look at the trees , but they were bare . |
| 41 | His Mum turned to look at the car that had crushed the arrow bits . |
| 42 | She half turned to look at the figure beside her and this proved a near fatal mistake . |
| 43 | He crossed to the edge of the grass and craned to look at the top of the building . |
| 44 | But Larry declined to look at the tapestry and turned his head up towards her instead . |
| 45 | And instead of seeing it as something God had ordained , we began to look at the exploitation of the poor by the rich in a political way , but using Christian concepts . |
| 46 | After 1945 , the committee was allowed to divide itself into subcommittees , it gave up scrutinizing the estimates in detail and began to look at the way money was being spent in selected fields and how far government policy was being achieved . |
| 47 | Though several economists in the late 1950s began to look at the economics of education , it was Schultz 's presidential address to the American Economic Association in 1960 that heralded the arrival of the human capital theory on the international academic scene . |
| 48 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 49 | So any feature analyser would have to deal with context so therefore they started to look at the role of context and we 're gon na look at contextual effects later on , probably next week or the week after . |
| 50 | It was then we found out who oc , who was the occupant of that flat then we started to look at the connection between and . |
| 51 | Well , when I was asked to speak to you today , I decided to look at the Oxford Dictionary 's definition of Community , which is joint ownership or liability . |
| 52 | The National Materials Handling Centre , with its interest in sustaining national expertise and development in warehouse design , decided to look at the factors restricting advances in the building of automatic warehouses in the United Kingdom and one which emerged and was considered to be worthy of further enquiry was the attention being paid to the problems of fire in high-bay warehouses . |
| 53 | ‘ Because an objection was raised we decided to look at the matter again , ’ said Reg Pyne , assistant registrar , standards and ethics . |
| 54 | ‘ I know , because one day when we went to look at the airport I saw water on the other side , by the road . |
| 55 | Instead she got up and went to look at the Labrador . |
| 56 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 57 | We called at Penndon museum which was closed , but looks good , and then went to look at the Cholsey and Wallingford Railway which has plenty of rolling stock . |
| 58 | He went to look at the window sill and there was this think it 's about time You did something about these . |
| 59 | I 'd like to go on and lo dad went to look at the cathedral . |
| 60 | You know when all this court business is on , and they had two hours at recess so he went to look at the cathedral with Steven and mum mentioned it and , and she said oh I think I 'll go and have a look round she said when all this is over cos dad , suppose he 'll never set foot in Norwich again and I said oh that 's silly cos it 's a , it is a lovely city . |