Example sentences of "[conj] look around " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that state they became ‘ sylvan demons ’ , ‘ either falling into a deep slumber or looking around for a fight . ’ |
| 2 | Or look around and see what there is going in the , in the market . |
| 3 | He comes out into the garden and sips his tea and looks around . |
| 4 | When the cat enters the room and looks around , it notices that several people are staring at it . |
| 5 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 6 | ‘ I went to the Tokyo Motor Show and looking around realised that most of the new big cars were front-wheel drive and nearly all had transverse engines . |
| 7 | We can learn more about ourselves from monkeys than from microbes , and looking around our modern human world it is clear that we need to discover as much as we can about ourselves . |
| 8 | She got control of herself , found Delaney pausing , and looking around for her . |
| 9 | But so clearly visible and definitely new since the previous evening was a set of footprints , and looking around , a set of tracks , small hob-nailed boot tracks going up the staircase to the top and not coming down . |
| 10 | ‘ But we seem to have this thing in Wales about always knocking our best players and looking around to try to put forward rivals who are n't as good . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Oh gosh , ’ Matilda said , sitting up and looking around . |
| 12 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 13 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 14 | The old seaman called for a glass of rum , and stood outside , drinking and looking around . |
| 15 | And then she glanced out of the main kitchen window , the one that had a partial view of the terrace ; Angelica looked as well , and saw that they had a few customers arriving and looking around uncertainly at the unstaffed deck . |
| 16 | He was backing off and looking around when Carson said , ‘ Where will you go ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think so , ’ she said , straightening in her seat and looking around like someone who 'd fallen asleep on a long journey and awoken in an unfamiliar place . |
| 18 | We discussed erm erm other places for people to meet et cetera has actually been closed down , some some problem with the is n't it , erm but they ca n't use it for the public so erm that was , it was just left that we 'll have another meeting in March and looking around for alternative places to meet , but that 's all to report on that . |
| 19 | Yes and switching the light on and looking around what did you do ? |
| 20 | There is nothing wrong in seeking an invitation to go and look around a neighbouring school to explore possibilities of working together . |
| 21 | ‘ it does not seem to be far from the truth that the freedom with which a person can walk about and look around is a very useful guide to the civilized quality of an urban area . |
| 22 | ‘ You can come up and look around , ’ Digby has said in a personal message to the Ayatollah , ‘ he 's not here . |
| 23 | Now and again they would stop and look around but there was no one following them . |
| 24 | ‘ He would sit and look around until he had an audience — then he 'd start . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ In the afternoon my wife likes to go out and look around car boot sales . |
| 26 | still does n't fit and that 's the thing yeah I mean all this morning was saying you have n't seen under fire , they do n't stop and look around if they get down into cover he said how they suppose to know who 's firing or not ? , you know . |
| 27 | More sink puts him well below the intended glide path , but instead of making the decision to choose a field and look around near it for more lift , he glides on . |
| 28 | Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc . |
| 29 | At the top of the cliff we paused to catch our breath and look around . |
| 30 | As she sat down and took out her notebook , she noticed the grey-haired woman , Gladys whatever-it-was , enter the hall and look around uncertainly . |