Example sentences of "[v-ing] and look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stopped walking and looked at the scrubland now directly in front of them . |
| 2 | A small boy in pyjamas put down the basket he was weaving and looked at the face for a second or two , then turned back to his basket . |
| 3 | Current Department of Agriculture inspection methods — feeling , smelling and looking at the food — were judged inappropriate as , in the case of fish , they can not not detect the toxins . |
| 4 | I had to keep the house going and look after the kids . |
| 5 | But erm the idea is have this up and running and look at the problems . |
| 6 | Pay good attention and show that you are listening by nodding and looking into the other person 's eyes , but not staring . |
| 7 | Round about four o'clock in the afternoon he would sometimes forget Morris and sprawl back in his chair with his hands behind his head , yawning and looking at the ceiling , just as he had before Morris 's arrival . |
| 8 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 9 | Today he was quiet all right , standing and looking at the weather maps with the rest of his crew , smoking a cigarette with jerky hands . |
| 10 | Kalchu 's younger brother had come over from his neighbouring hut and the two men sat spinning , talking and looking after the small children until their wives returned . |
| 11 | Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay . |