Example sentences of "to look [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Did you get a chance to look in at the side studio , when they were there last Friday ?
2 She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard .
3 Sharpe stepped a pace forward to look down at the map .
4 Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand .
5 ‘ Is it still light enough to work ? ’ asked Merymose , standing , and walking across to the doctor to look down at the body .
6 They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county .
7 His face was severely troubled and he went out into the street to look up at the tree which overhung his house .
8 Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky .
9 to learn it : to look up at the brightness
10 If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you .
11 The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed .
12 All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones .
13 Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill …
14 He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau .
15 They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed .
16 Regression enables the former child to look back at the situation through the eyes of the adult he or she has now become and to see the reality of it all .
17 The foreman of the Lord Warden 's Forest Rangers was with him and they came out twice a day to the lip of Steep Ridgery , early in the morning and again towards sunset , to look out at the smoke .
18 Vitor strolled over to the open door to look out at the house with its quaint latticed windows , its white-painted shutters , the walls awash with waterfalls of crimson bougainvillaea .
19 She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it .
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