Example sentences of "look [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 2 | In the meantime , Fielding tells me , Mother Nature looks on and taps her foot and clicks her tongue . |
| 3 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 4 | It would not be eaten — she had not the faintest illusion of that — but it would be looked on and smiled over and would bring back happy memories and it was all she could think of to signify her reborn affection . |
| 5 | Tensely , the airmen looked below and saw the crowded train reach the North Queensferry side in safety . |
| 6 | Kent stops in full flow , looks down and says , ‘ Uh … my balls , ’ and hitches them back aloft into a hole in his strides and carries on talking . |
| 7 | I suspect that Pound is rueful at best when he looks down and sees us industriously annotating out of Sir Edward Coke Canto 107 , without noticing that the English language is in that canto handled with none of the sensitivity that would make those labours worthwhile . |
| 8 | He looks down and sees red fur . |
| 9 | At 5am , the auxiliary had looked in and found Allitt by Miss Lowe 's bedside . |
| 10 | He had looked down and watched the body trembling and kicking . |
| 11 | Bond Street had been looked over and found wanting : the clothes not displayed as they should be , the new vendeuse lacking in charm . |
| 12 | Some people at the church door caught his eye and smiled and bowed respectfully but others looked away and exchanged glances with grinning friends . |
| 13 | Jenna hastily looked away and followed Marguerite up the curved stairs and on to a long landing . |
| 14 | The only person there not doing this is the cat-hater , who looks away and keeps very still , trying to be ignored by the feared animal . |
| 15 | He looks away and takes another dry biscuit . |
| 16 | Ma nods , looks pleadingly and tells me in her love-voice : ‘ She 's only a tiny baby , Jimbo . |
| 17 | According to Indian values the courts should have looked further and settled the real dispute which lay behind the ostensible complaint . |
| 18 | At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’ |
| 19 | He stopped abruptly , and she knew he must have looked up and seen her . |
| 20 | As the tiny head , covered in silky black hair , nestled warmly in the palm of her hand , she had looked up and met eyes full of tenderness and love , eyes the colour of slate . |
| 21 | One is contained in the sentence which is most often mocked in the Preface to ‘ Paradise Lost ’ : 'A schoolboy who reads a page of Milton by chance , for the first time , and then looks up and says ‘ By Gum ’ , not in the least knowing how the thing has worked , but only that new strength and width and brightness and zest have transformed his world , is nearer to the truth [ than the critics ] . ’ |
| 22 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 23 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 24 | The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams . |
| 25 | Tepilit looks up and sees Leavitt . |
| 26 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 27 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 28 | When the worst of the storm was past he had looked out and seen with astonishment a flame blossom from the top of the Tower . |
| 29 | And I 've been there since Alpha and I every year I 've looked out and watched the form twos . |
| 30 | He looks out and comes back quickly . |