Example sentences of "[conj] look at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I dare say someone could cross a road with the best of intentions — to help an old lady perhaps , or to look at a fruit-shop — then slip on a banana-skin and cause a perfectly horrible accident . |
| 2 | If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels , one comes away quite impressed . |
| 3 | This month David Savage discusses the importance of mistakes within the workshop , and looks at a finish he would otherwise not now use if it had n't been for a disaster |
| 4 | In a chair opposite sat Tom who was drinking tea and looking at a book . |
| 5 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 6 | For actually glancing down and looking at a clock |
| 7 | erm certainly numerically controlled machine tools , they 've been with us for a number of years now and there 's no doubt about it that micro-electronics is having an influence , or advances in micro-electronics are having a way in which they are implemented , but I feel applications of that type it requires quite a large amount of flexibility in being able to program it to set up one machine , program it differently to set up another machine , say , or to produce one component and another component and so on , so that I think there one is thinking and looking at a more sophisticated type of computer than , say , a simple microcomputer that we 've been talking about earlier . |
| 8 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 9 | You have to be very patient , you wan na try and look at a situation where they might wan na do it for five , ten , 15 , 20 years . |
| 10 | They decide to go and look at a new house they passed earlier in the day . |
| 11 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 12 | Bob felt obliged to go and look at a certain number of these places out of politeness . |
| 13 | When Rachel was finally writing up her reports at the end of the morning , Nina suddenly called her and asked if she could come and look at a young man who had come in with a skin rash . |
| 14 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
| 15 | Part-ex and all the rest of it , did the deal , negotiated , and said right what we want to do , is Saturday morning , she thinks she 's going to come down and look at a decent second-hand one , and I want you to take the part , take the brand new car off and all the rest of it , and then say take that one for a test drive , which is mine , all taxed up and gassed up and all the rest of it , and we 'll disappear in the moonlight . |
| 16 | Let's leave that problem , though , and look at a few of the more important kinds of places in which eruptions occur , relative to a preexisting volcano . |
| 17 | We test a new coated jacket and look at a brand new development in the field |
| 18 | If you got into trouble you were made to sit on a chair and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day . |
| 19 | . If there are bits that you do n't understand and you 're having trouble , give me a phone , I think I put my phone number on the board , give me a ring at home , give me a ring at Aston or come and see me or go and chat to your friends or go go and look at a text book but if that does n't help , then come back , right ? |
| 20 | And it think that — I mean I like to have , if you go back and look at a Rolling Stone when I was doing it , there are pages in there , I would say one third of all the pages in there , you would not even want to print today . |
| 21 | The project aims to develop a general set of answers to these questions , relevant to any metropolitan region , and to look at a set of current labour market issues in Greater London and the Outer Metropolitan region ( including West Kent . ) |
| 22 | And er it , it 's much pleasanter to work and to look at a pleasant environment than something that , that is n't . |
| 23 | Dot slid down from the high bed and sat on the carpet and looked at a wooden dolls ' house , a painted rocking horse , but she did n't touch . |
| 24 | She now moved away from the case and looked at a list attached , low down , on the wall to the side of the smokers ' requisites demonstration case . |
| 25 | We can infer that George was in a restaurant , and that he sat at a table and looked at a menu . |
| 26 | Agrippa stopped and looked at a lonely bird shrieking above us as if it was a devil let loose to wander this lonely wilderness . |
| 27 | Something on the ground caught his eye and he bent down and looked at a small print in the soft earth . |
| 28 | I still remember the feeling of hopelessness as I sat and looked at a board covered with arrows and lines , the words ‘ tacking ’ , ‘ rigging ’ , ‘ wind direction ’ and ‘ points of sailing ’ floating around in my head . |
| 29 | They 'd been and looked at a few and there , |
| 30 | for example , a production manager may be stuck about ideas on how to improve factory efficiency but looking at a potted plant on the desk might suggest an improved working environment or employees being given more wages ( which may be seen as the equivalent of plant food ) . |