Example sentences of "and look at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you like to go down and look at the inscriptions on the slabs ? ’ |
| 3 | It is a salutary exercise to turn around and look at the Fifties and the Cold War from the East instead of the West . |
| 4 | The point is , you see , that I did not ask you to go and look at the time on that clock ; I merely asked you to study the numerals on it . |
| 5 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 6 | If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ? |
| 7 | It is all too easy to spend a back-breaking couple of hours weeding the garden and never take ten minutes to sit and look at the flowers . |
| 8 | The row over Digital Equipment Corp 's decision to end manufacturing in Galway and try to find a new tenant to take over the manufacturing plant — which DEC owns , will not die down , and now the European Commission is to investigate Irish allegations that the UK government lured DEC into keeping its Ayr plant open at the expense of Galway : Commerce & Technology Minister Seamus Brennan , in Brussels for a meeting of European Community industry ministers , said Dublin had asked Competition Commissioner Karel van Miert to probe media reports that DEC had been offered inducements to keep the Ayr plant open — but no-one seems to have said just what these alleged inducements are ; the UK government on Friday denied the allegations , saying any assistance it might or might not have given would have been fully in accordance with Community rules , and invited Community auditors to ‘ come and look at the books any time ’ . |
| 9 | They 're trying to make the bottom bit look decent now , they keep buying things for it , but it never looks right you ca n't see it from here , we 'll go out and look at the garden after tea . " |
| 10 | So if you 'd like to go down the stairs there there are some coats oh your coats and things and I will er go and come and join you and we 'll we 'll take off and look at the outside . |
| 11 | In the daytime you can come back and look at the Old State House we 're coming up to and see the cobblestones which mark the place where blood was shed in the great Boston Massacre . |
| 12 | Not only are more and more people willing and able to go and look at the countryside , but the trend is towards more active recreational pursuits , involving the more extensive use of space and paralleled by an extension of the time spent there . |
| 13 | ‘ Let's go and look at the railway , ’ said Peter . |
| 14 | The system may look very good in theory , but does anyone actually come in and look at the tapes ? |
| 15 | ‘ I must go and look at the chicken pie , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 16 | Er we pride ourselves on our housekeeping , it 's a selling factor for us , and we have customers come round and look at the plant and they always commend us quite highly on our housekeeping . |
| 17 | I know , Thérèse shouted : let's go and look at the kittens . |
| 18 | The river is placid here , where it becomes patient in its long run to the sea and decides to slow and look at the land it passes through . |
| 19 | And then we can go on and look at the passage , which brings together the words of the widow and Elisha and the actions of God . |
| 20 | ‘ I should like to go and look at the sea . ’ |
| 21 | and you could go and look at the local one and talk to the people there and see what they 're doing and |
| 22 | It 's a great barn of a pub with a high ceiling , a balcony area and lots of glass in the south wall so you can drink and look at the Thames without having to smell it . |
| 23 | We did , however , feel it was necessary to go and look at the because we are very aware of , of , of the lighting that affects those properties who 've been very patient with the amount of development that 's gone on there . |
| 24 | Sara had told her to go to bed , or rather to go and look at the TV programme she wanted to watch . |
| 25 | ’ At night we like to sit out and look at the views of the valley with a glass of wine . |
| 26 | Coun Taylor said : ‘ We are always ready to talk and look at the statistical evidence for increased safety measures . |
| 27 | Like him to go and look at the one at er the at er which seems to be a successful one |
| 28 | Well I think I 'd better go and look at the jam again . |
| 29 | Do you want to stay here and look at the books ? |
| 30 | They ca n't stay and look at the , that child all the time can they ? |