Example sentences of "try to look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 2 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 3 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 4 | This seemed to me to be a pretty fair definition of hell , but I tried to look like a man who enjoyed such occasions . |
| 5 | PC Blenkinsop pushed out his narrow chest and tried to look like an all-knowing , sophisticated officer . |
| 6 | In a design of this kind , where the flowers and leaves are built up in layers , you should try to look at the outline that will be visible ( in this case , the outer leaves ) , and make sure that they are lying at pleasing angles . |
| 7 | You should try to look at the situation objectively and philosophically , and , if you can , keep a sense of humour . |
| 8 | The idea of providing a decent service to a customer is probably dead , so we might all try to look for the protection of the might , majesty , dominion and power of the English Common Law . |
| 9 | Always try to look inside a PC before you buy it . |
| 10 | I try to look in the windows of the house but they 're either covered with those plastic roll-down external shutters you usually see in France or closed off inside by Venetian blinds . |
| 11 | At first he had tried to look at the newspapers regularly to search for job vacancies and had sent application forms to prospective employers . |
| 12 | We used the word " profile " to indicate that we are trying to look at a shape when we are selecting people , choosing a business to take over , assessing a deal , estimating a risk . |
| 13 | Trying to look at the subject rationally , I think it was a difference between theory and practice . |
| 14 | erm Part of the project that we 're on is trying to look at the possibility of tracing timber through from the forest right through to the end user , or at any rate , the sale at the saw-mill , in the same . |
| 15 | So I 'm , I 'm just trying to look at the ones for and then we 'll go from there . |
| 16 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 17 | Erm , we we talked about this sort of issue earlier on , in in relationship to the , to the R A D. Erm , I 'm not quite sure of the strong importance of that organisation to the council , but I am sure that this erm , committee was set up by a number of south west authorities who are trying to look at the future of county farms . |
| 18 | ‘ You are London-born ? ’ he queried , trying to look at the parchment lying on Geoffrey 's desk . |
| 19 | We 're trying to look to the gaps , and I wonder if we are , as you suggest in the comments that you 've received perhaps losing , we 're not perhaps sufficiently direct in addressing the parish organizations which are after all the core of a parish . |
| 20 | And I think what we 're doing here , is is getting ahead of that , and trying to look to the future of the consortium . |
| 21 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 22 | Difficult , at this distance , to shut out of mind photographs of Waugh in his later years in his modest country house , forever trying to look like a country gentleman and forever ( as a friend once remarked ) looking like a bookie . |
| 23 | Her acne had n't cleared up , and she was trying to look like a dowager . |