Example sentences of "and looking [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They would be securing the boats , and perhaps some of the stock , and looking to the hay and peat-stacks . |
| 2 | She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future … |
| 3 | The study is longitudinal and takes the reader through the process of moving in , living as a group , getting support , and looking to the future . |
| 4 | My father checks the cellar every few weeks , going nervously down with a torch , counting the bales and sniffing , and looking at the thermometer and hygrometer . |
| 5 | There are two small patches to the north of the city and looking at the plan again this morning there 's one small patch |
| 6 | you make your sound and you carry on and on and on , I 'm gon na keep on taping different people 's make their sound and then we 're gon na see what it feels like you 're in hospital , okay , now it does n't matter if somebody 's got the same sound as somebody else , it 's no big deal , alright , because eventually they 'll all blend into each other , but as soon as I 've tapped you , make your sound , alright patients , come on where 's the machines ? okay , stop , now when did it start becoming out of hand ? , at one stage we did n't really know where we were to , once , once I say ten people , okay , and that was also due to the fact that we had perhaps too many erm patients moaning , alright , it was good in one respect because why , it made obvious that we were in a , a hospital well something like , but erm when you 're in smaller groups and you 're making your sound machines , obviously it 's much easier to control and to make the overall sound more realistic , do n't you think ? , so , mm , what we 're going to do is we 're going to get into different groups , into groups of four , five , no big deal , you 're welcome to only if you want to , and , you 're going to , each group is going to choose er a profession , okay , you can be brick layers , you can be er musicians , er you can be er gardener , I mean absolutely you can be factory workers , you can be absolutely anything , and what you 're going to do is you 're going to choose , each person will choose a sound which is represented of that particular person , er profession , okay , and you 'll going to make your sounds simultaneously so that as for the audience who are simply listening to you can just close our eyes cos we wo n't , you wo n't be acting you 'll be making these sounds and using , we 'll close our eyes and we 'll know exactly where we are , okay , and then after that once we 've done that just , before you choose your profession to know what this is going to lead onto , after that we 're going to put movements to that profession , so when , if you were in a factory going er putting bottles on , on top top of bottles , you would have the movements going and you would have the sound going and I want you to build up , up , the sound machine which becomes the movement machine as well , so you 're almost robotic so you , shh , shh , or whatever , however your sound , and each person does their thing in the factory or where ever they are and we will be able to see from listening and looking at the movements and obviously remember just because you 're not an example it does n't mean you ca n't talk , there might be for instance there would be a doctor going stand back , stand back , you know , er , in , in the you can use voices , but also obviously very , very effective to have sound voices , shh , shh , to create that part of it , have instruments , but this is how they actually started lay down sound tracks for movies , people specialize |
| 7 | She saw a young man squatting on a rucksack , eating a bar of chocolate and looking at the board . |
| 8 | We watched him creating that knitting , talking about colour and going round and looking at the things which had inspired his imagination in his designing . |
| 9 | And looking at the glow of restrained excitement in the other actor 's face , Charles knew that Alex Household thought he was about to get his part back . |
| 10 | Additionally however , we need to make it clear that when we have looked at the figures and I would pay some to the opposition for bringing er some matters to our attention , erm and looking at the way in which very , very careful on the part of this council has led to a better reserve position than we would previously have expected . |
| 11 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 12 | Setting aside this particular match and looking at the idea on a broader basis , I see a rough ride ahead if the idea spreads . |
| 13 | Instead , after a pause , and looking at the man quizzically , Ceauşescu remarked , ‘ Have it your way then ’ , and walked off . |
| 14 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 15 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 16 | Others probe the functions of different areas by applying electrical stimulation and looking at the behaviours , if any , that are elicited by it . |
| 17 | The information which is available highlights the importance of disaggregating household-based data on incomes and expenditure patterns and looking at the consequences for the individuals within those households . |
| 18 | She was biting her lip and looking at the ceiling , as if willing herself awake . |
| 19 | He laughs , too , putting his head back and looking at the ceiling . |
| 20 | Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival . |
| 21 | He knew a little about plants and animals , and he enjoyed walking through the woods around his house and looking at the birds and flowers there . |
| 22 | He tries putting them behind his back and looking at the floor , smiling reflectively . |
| 23 | They were sitting in front of the house and looking at the ocean . |
| 24 | And if we can pin those down , and as Roger said , we 've also now , over the last few weeks co begun carrying out erm regular testing two or three times a day now on each of the floors and looking at the humidity |
| 25 | That would be a little bit of a problem for Frank Clarke if er Cooper has got a problem with his shoulder you know if it 's if it 's serious because looking at his people on his bench you know Neil Webb and Crosby and looking at the make-up of his team he has n't really got anybody he could slot back in there unless he put er Rozario in there . |
| 26 | Much of the work in the first two years of school will concentrate on looking backwards at the relatively recent past ( life 50 – 80 years ago ) , using oral history , photographs , objects , and looking at the locality , the family , home and school . |
| 27 | And , perhaps going back a bit and looking at the history of the last ten years , it is important to realize that we have developed small centres as well as large ones . |
| 28 | I remember a man coming up to me at Sandhurst and looking at the back of my hair and saying , ‘ What regiment are you going into ? ’ and I said ‘ The Grenadiers , ’ and he said ‘ You appear to be growing your own bear skin . ’ |
| 29 | On Thursday we drew the whole thing together ending up with team practice and looking at the videos in the evening . |
| 30 | As I stood watching him for a few seconds and looking at the damage to his farm buildings and the dead and wounded cattle around the orchard , I thought to myself . |