Example sentences of "[pron] could look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I checked my watch and stood up so I could look across the Paddock . |
| 2 | I picked him up gently , just to move him back so that I could look into the box … |
| 3 | However , in the twelfth century corner , I found a place where I could look through four archways at once , a soothing occupation . |
| 4 | As I left I asked Marcus to remove his dark glasses so I could look at his face . |
| 5 | I could look at all these things and say that 's just not the right way to do it . |
| 6 | Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south . |
| 7 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 8 | I could look at it and think , ‘ Cor ! |
| 9 | I told her I wanted something I could look at on days when it was too hot to have a fire . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I could look at you across a room full of people , and still make you weak with longing . ’ |
| 11 | I thought I 'd seen something like it before but the woman came over and I had to move away before I could look at it more closely . |
| 12 | The delivery because it gave me what I had to think about when I was up there language body language and then the playbacks I could look at the two things that Mike just highlighted as one and two . |
| 13 | I could look at that , at you all day . |
| 14 | I could look at the library ca n't I ? |
| 15 | In greater detail I could look at what kind of coverage we 've got , but I think in ten minutes I do n't have time to do that . |
| 16 | Liese explained how I could look for answers ; but first , silently , I had to formulate my question . |
| 17 | There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ? |
| 18 | I could look after Hepzibah , I could buy Druid 's Bottom , and we could all live there together . |
| 19 | I could look after myself . |
| 20 | Someone I could look after . |
| 21 | ‘ I did n't know I could look like that . |
| 22 | And then you just draw it out again so that someone could look at it and they could see the energy changes in front . |
| 23 | The coffin had to have an extra lining and the lid was screwed down earlier than it might have been , so that nobody could look on them dead , except the undertaker who came to the house and wore a mask and Liam who insisted on being with them all the time . |
| 24 | If everyone could look after their own , there would be far fewer people like social workers running around looking after other people 's own . |
| 25 | No-one could look at our council offices on Cregagh Road with any sense of civic pride and indeed some would argue that having nondescript and dowdy council offices is quite the proper thing . |
| 26 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 27 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're happy , ’ she said softly , tilting back her head so that she could look into his face . |
| 29 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 30 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |