Example sentences of "they looked at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Both of them looked at the stain on the carpet in silence .
2 You know maybe a vacuum that needed to be filled by and They looked at the case of the quarry strike and it 's sort of so glaring obvious for men and women all over the country that it 's er really a case of er wo working men and women being erm well being trampled upon really .
3 The marketing team of the DIY company would probably discuss some of the following questions as they looked at the bar charts :
4 They looked at the behaviour of a male and infant under one of three conditions .
5 One answer to this could be that articulate Europeans , however much they differed , were formed by a common educational heritage and thought of themselves as Europeans when they looked at the rest of the world .
6 As Jim Durcan , director of the leadership development programme at Ashridge Management College , observes : ‘ They looked at the way US auto factories , for example , were run compared to Japanese auto factories .
7 They looked at the law and said it had been broken .
8 They looked at the prince , and passing by him , fastened with intent upon Hotspur 's watching face , as yet impassive .
9 The men of Charlton must have cherished their independence , especially when they looked at the fate of the neighbouring village of Noke , which , it was said , was lost by Lily , duchess of Marlborough , at cards .
10 No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world .
11 They looked at the rubbish , then they looked at each other .
12 Huy asked him , as they looked at the rock .
13 They looked at the radio , as if it would tell them something , and then their cold eyes settled on Bruno , who was not laughing any more .
14 They looked at the body in silence , then background and training took over .
15 They looked at the picture in the mirror of themselves side by side .
16 But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems .
17 They looked at the grass .
18 They looked at the passports and then started to walk down the aisle , pointing their guns at the passengers .
19 Could n't take the tight lips and the heavy sighs whenever they looked at the twins . ’
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