Example sentences of "[vb past] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I walked on and tried looking people in the eye . |
| 2 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 3 | He even tried looking in the oven but Mrs Bird drove him out of her kitchen with her feather duster . |
| 4 | It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror . |
| 5 | But Myfanwy Piper , John Piper 's wife , remarked how penetrating and imaginative John Cranko 's taste and judgement already were , in spite of limited opportunities in South Africa , and that since his arrival in England he ‘ never stopped looking , listening and absorbing ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Well , I think it 's high time you stopped looking like something out of the last century , do n't you , my sweet ? ’ her stepmother said . |
| 7 | None of it held the magic of her communication with Friend ; even here , jacked into the shadows , she ached for him but reason told her she would n't find him , long before she stopped looking . |
| 8 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 9 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 10 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 11 | After a while Lambert stopped looking . |
| 12 | Mrs Cummings ' daughter-in-law was similar to , though less antagonistic than , Mrs Kitchener 's daughter , in that she said she found looking after her mother-in-law a strain , that it was time-consuming , and putting a strain on her marriage ; she and her mother-in-law had never got on very well , and she ‘ would like to get her into a Home , ’ . |
| 13 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 14 | The domestic skills I had acquired at school and perfected looking after Father when Mother died , were not skills valued by Helmut . |
| 15 | Reading was difficult for me , especially when it involved looking at the chalkboard , and I soon found myself being classed as ‘ thick ’ . |
| 16 | This involved looking for female as well as male sources , and avoiding sexist definitions . |
| 17 | This involved looking up the ailments common to exotic animals in order to be prepared for any searching questions by the proprietor . |
| 18 | She pushed aside the clothing and revealed him , all small and disconsolate and shrivelled looking , knees drawn up under chin in a foetal position . |
| 19 | Academy assistant manager Mette Doessing promised to look into Mr Doblin 's case , but said the hotel received few complaints about telephone charges . |
| 20 | He promised to look into my complaint and ceremoniously restored my defaced season ticket with a rubber . |
| 21 | At first it appeared a good development for the island — the Germans promised to look after poor patients with tuberculosis and , in return , were given many favourable concessions such as duty-free importation of equipment and the right to expropriate land . |
| 22 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 23 | The sit-in at Beishida ( shortened form of the university 's name ) caused some tension , but eventually the college principal promised to look into the matter . |
| 24 | British Rail promised to look ‘ symathetically ’ at any complaints . |
| 25 | In his first meeting with the TUC General Council in January 1942 , Beveridge rejected their suggestion for a retirement condition , saying ‘ I do not believe the old people leaving the labour market really create fresh employment ’ , but he promised to look further into the matter . |
| 26 | They promised to look after Eric . |
| 27 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 28 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 29 | In particular , it promised to look again at the case of Canford Heath in Dorset , where a recent court judgement upheld the decision by Poole Borough Council to build houses on the heath in the face of vociferous opposition from conservation groups , led by the World Wide Fund for Nature [ see ED no . |
| 30 | They promised ta tax cuts , they promised to cut crime , they promised to look after the environment , they promised to improve e education , they promised to improve the the democratic process , they 're now the party of careful housekeeping . |