Example sentences of "look at the [noun] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me look at the map and see where we go to rejoin the main road to the auto-route . |
| 2 | Meditation is the just judge that can look at the present and put it into perspective ; the images of the past , the faithfulness , the many joys and sadnesses give to the present a continuity so that the nearness does not warp the judgement . |
| 3 | If concepts of privacy are allowed to operate in an uncritical manner , then such historians will look at the records and say , yes indeed these people had no names , only fragmented unlinkable traces in the disparate records of courts , government and business . |
| 4 | I would look at the lines and tremble . |
| 5 | Even if it were true , as some scientific students of law believe , that a past service can not support a future promise , you must look at the document and see if the promise can not receive a proper effect in some other way . |
| 6 | Cos that 's when , when , when we get to that nearer the date , we could , we could just , you know , when you 're confirmed that you 've been booked and you 're definitely going , erm we could look at the finances and see how much we could afford to , to give , erm , something to each person to help with , eit either with the accommodation or , or the transport . |
| 7 | If you intend to climb a mountain , you do not look at the foothills and worry ; you keep your eyes fixed on the summit , and that way , if you are very lucky and very determined , you may achieve it . |
| 8 | ‘ While you 're brushing down your overcoat , Anne , Christine and I will go and look at the tree and see if we can climb up to the apples . ’ |
| 9 | We must look at the standards and work in schools from an objective standpoint , and that should involve some outsiders , which means non-educationists , looking , inspecting and reporting . |
| 10 | Well they know that , and if there 's a machine that 'll do the job , and if , when they 've pressed the right buttons they can look at the answer and say ‘ Yes , three point four 's about right ’ and so on , then that 's good enough for me . |
| 11 | Again , please can you look at the situation and see what can be done . |
| 12 | I 'd go off to work , and she 'd look at the script and say : ‘ Who are you working with today , what are you doing ? ’ |
| 13 | all different meanings of the wor but can you not just look at the dictionary and read the dictionary ? |
| 14 | Yes , I mean my view is that we put it out for members we see what the uptake is and then we can always look at the list and ring certain other people |
| 15 | Perhaps , perhaps , perhaps it was because of that we did n't have it , and the treasurer and the secretary are officially erm , and we do have constitution do n't we now of course , so we can look at the constitution and see what it says |
| 16 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 17 | They 'd look at the waterworks and come back . |