Example sentences of "[vb past] to look at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 61 | The whole train stopped while he jumped down from the dome car and went to look at the laggard . |
| 62 | Such was my astonishment that I stopped kicking the offending mouse and at the first opportunity went to look at the hedgerow . |
| 63 | They went to look at the jewellery piled on a table on the far side of the courtyard . |
| 64 | He went to look at the ricks again . |
| 65 | He offered to look at the engine of her car , an offer which was gratefully accepted . |
| 66 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 67 | In the foyer he paused to look at the posters , and learned that he had just seen a comedy called Pull The Other One ! |
| 68 | I 've got an appointment with — ’ he paused to look at the name at the foot of the letter which had been included in his holdall at the station ‘ -K . |
| 69 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |
| 70 | On reading the Echo report I had to look at the top of the page to make certain that the date was June 1st and not April 1st . |
| 71 | ‘ You only had to look at the faces sitting around the table at base camp to know that they were physically and mentally finished . ’ |
| 72 | ‘ It was very time-consuming — you had to look at the jockey , horse and trainer 's charts . |
| 73 | Marcus did n't care what Wilson said , you only had to look at the guy . |
| 74 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 75 | In drawing up its outline plan , the WJEC was not content solely with commenting separately on the proposals made by its constituent local authorities but attempted to look at the needs of Wales as a whole , a procedure that was not always followed by the English RACs in respect of their regions . |
| 76 | Top service brass , diplomats and the intelligence community all tended to look at the world in more interventionist terms than a decade earlier . |
| 77 | ‘ I wanted to look at the tapestries , Sergeant . |
| 78 | My learned friend and I thought that if your Lordship wanted to look at the documentation so that your Lordship is familiar with some of the documentation which is going to be referred to in the evidence , er simply to enable your Lordship to be er a little more familiar with the nature of content of some of the documentation then the crucial documents are those of pages one seven eight to four two five , bundle B. |
| 79 | He had made the mistake of going via Salisbury because his bride of six months , who was twenty years younger than him , wanted to look at the cathedral . |
| 80 | In a Panorama documentary on Monday night , Tim 's father Colin will say : ‘ I wanted to look at the man , to hear his voice and to ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 81 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 82 | ‘ We indicated we would be interested to talk to Gerry Adams , because I wanted to look at the man and hear his voice and ask him directly about how he could be in league with an organisation like the IRA . |
| 83 | He wanted to look at the contract and check it out and really , with no trouble at all — I think he wrote a couple of letters and said that Pitt was not acting in the capacity as manager that David required and that was that . ’ |
| 84 | ‘ You wanted to look at the letter Jenny Connon received the day before yesterday . |
| 85 | I just wanted to look at the Earth . |
| 86 | Now , I wanted to look at the possibilities of a rather softer approach and tried out some alternative ways of using eh Faber-Castell Polychromos Pastels . |