Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often .
2 No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out !
3 During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them .
4 I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard .
5 If you look upon me from an aerial view , I 'm open .
6 Often they are middle-aged or elderly ladies , who look upon it as a social club .
7 The people look to me as a new Messiah .
8 Obviously many look on it as a significant occasion which is very , very flattering ’ .
9 Look on it as an extra bit of security for all that money you 've invested in the station .
10 Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities .
11 Look on it from a medical angle if you like , as a cure for an ailment . ’
12 Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres .
13 For instance , when people find out that my father ran off with a schoolgirl they invariably look at me in a particular way , which means one of two things , if not both of them .
14 Look at him with the bloody roll in the window !
15 He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much .
16 It is difficult to assess exactly what all these developments mean individually , but when you step back and look at them as a whole trend , the implications become clear .
17 We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope .
18 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes .
19 Look at them in a new way .
20 The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource .
21 So when you look at it on a yearly basis and a compare it to what it was a few years ago , Yes it 's gone up a lot .
22 So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee .
23 we 've been talking about individuals and what they want , and we live in a context in which if people want a thing and the , and we feel that they should have the choice particularly if they have the money that if to , if you look at it in a wider context there are seven million children living on the streets in Brazil !
24 Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such .
25 If you look at it in a certain way , right , it shows your ignorance , I mean you 're over in England , right , for so long — I mean to say you should know what to chat in front of certain people , right ?
26 So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture
27 I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems .
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