Example sentences of "look at [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 2 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 3 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |
| 4 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 5 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 6 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 7 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 8 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 9 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 10 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 11 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 12 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |