Example sentences of "[verb] to look [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 2 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 3 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 4 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 5 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 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 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 8 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 9 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 14 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 15 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 16 | She had to look up at the glittering green eyes ; she could n't help herself ; she had to watch as Fincara stooped down before her , white hands on knees , and sang — |