Example sentences of "look [adv prt] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 2 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 3 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 5 | I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’ |
| 6 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 7 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 8 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 9 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 10 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 11 | He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator . |
| 12 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 13 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 14 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 15 | They need only look out at a sheep . |
| 16 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 17 | Left : From Monica 's favourite spot — her writing room — she can look out at the garden while sitting at her desk |
| 18 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 19 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |
| 20 | ‘ There was a time when we could look around at the Commonwealth , the Empire , other countries and we would see very soft markets for British exports . |