Example sentences of "looked at the [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside .
2 was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down .
3 I would prefer it if er we looked at the criteria and the policy itself , but take useful information from this if if need be .
4 Sony were on hand to take the best of several live performances as the latest in a Puccini cycle which has already shed light on two rarities ( the early Le Villi , the late but surprisingly light La Rondine ) and will go on to Edgar — which Maazel had hoped he would record with Domingo at the time of the Fanciulla production but ‘ we looked at the schedule and realized , fortunately in time , that we were totally insane ’ .
5 In 1967–68 , the Council 's Training Panel looked at the problems and set up two sub-committees to be concerned with the practical training element of sandwich courses in arts and social studies , and in science and technology .
6 Is try and make up a mountain that 's misty , so she looked at the map and began to climb down .
7 Inquiry ‘ The doctor looked at the bottle and rushed him straight to hospital . ’
8 Alexander looked at the stars and shifted from foot to foot .
9 Again he looked at the telephone and lit the flame of the lighter .
10 Dot looked at the doll and thought of its lost companion with a face of dripping wax .
11 Now we looked at the graphs and that should dictate in general that demand will go down .
12 She looked at the dish and the food again .
13 I looked at the posters and the photographs .
14 Too tired to be surprised by anything , Nenna looked at the davits and saw that the dinghy must have been lowered away already .
15 Marcus looked at the psychiatrist and the psychiatrist looked at Marcus .
16 They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg .
17 And they hung about and hung about and then they came across here , looked at the board and they kept turning round and looking where I was .
18 Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind .
19 He looked at the girl and held out his hand , which she took and kept while he told his story .
20 Stefan looked at the schnapps and winced .
21 As she did this , she looked at the newspaper and read some of the words on the page … and it was like a terrible dream .
22 Alex looked at the objects and said ‘ None ’ .
23 A short while later the apothecary returned , looked at the dagger and smiled thinly .
24 They looked at the law and said it had been broken .
25 Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis .
26 Then I looked at the chassis and registration numbers and realised it was my old car .
27 She looked at the earpiece and blew some flour off the metal diaphragm .
28 They deliberated , looked at the sun and then questioned the clerics , since the practice of the liturgy and the regular tolling of church bells had accustomed them to a more precise knowledge of the rhythm of the hours than the judges themselves possessed .
29 Burun looked at the sun and estimated the time .
30 Behind him , Prentice looked at the ceiling and squirmed with pleasure as Mrs T put an armlock on me and began to walk us both down the corridor .
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