Example sentences of "[adv] look [adv prt] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the door she had suddenly looked up and said , ‘ Do n't you eat ? ’ |
| 2 | For years she could only look on and sympathise with Lady Spencer as the ‘ spiteful stepmother ’ stories about her grew unchecked . |
| 3 | Women are welcome to drop in to look around and meet staff and trainees . |
| 4 | shut up , no sit down look up and shut up . |
| 5 | He suddenly looked round and remembered the two retainers . |
| 6 | He went on pretending to read and then he suddenly looked up and stared at her , examining her . |
| 7 | And er he he suddenly looked up and went it 's Brian ! |
| 8 | He suddenly looked up and caught her looking at him . |
| 9 | Richard Burbage was on stage and he suddenly looked up and stopped in the middle of a word . |
| 10 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 11 | The conducting officer just looks around and assesses the result . |
| 12 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 13 | Cash is overwhelmingly in sterling erm , can I just look up and remind my erm , refresh me on that . |
| 14 | They did not look up or catch his eye , but there was a perceptible tremor along the work benches , a subtle increase in the carefulness and precision of their movements as the boss passed . |
| 15 | It was very tiring work , and it kept me busy so that I did not look up and see the Hispaniola until she was just half a mile away from me ! |
| 16 | He walked to his car and did not look back or glance in her direction as he drove quickly out of the drive . |
| 17 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 18 | You can always look back and say " What if " , but we must remember that we got ourselves out of a couple of scrapes on last two days and for a time we looked absolutely terrible , but we turned it around and could have won . |
| 19 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 20 | Not only , therefore , was William party to the decision to request continuation of the supervision order , but he now looks back and agrees it was the right decision . |
| 21 | It seems extraordinary now to look back and remember how we improvised as we did during the war . |
| 22 | It is good psychologically to look back and see just how much you have improved both in terms of strength and physique . |
| 23 | The students who have been writing everything down now look up and smile wryly at Robyn Penrose , like victims of a successful hoax . |
| 24 | But I often look back and think well if was the girls who insisted that it 's time mum had a proper automatic washing machine |
| 25 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 26 | When she hears me come into the room she does n't look round or say ‘ Hello ’ . |
| 27 | But he sat and did n't look up and said , ‘ Hang on for a coach , ’ |
| 28 | At the bad moments do n't look back and think , Well at least I 'm a major in the British Army . |
| 29 | ‘ I ca n't look back and say , ‘ hey , maybe I should have stayed at school ’ . |
| 30 | So we 'd fill them and we could n't see anyway , lookin We could n't look down and see , we had to wait for the foreman shouting all the instructions , move left , forward or up or down . |