Example sentences of "looks [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 2 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 3 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 4 | When you press the Enter key , DOS looks at the first word in the string of characters you 've typed in and compares it to a list of command names stored in the file called COMMAND.COM . |
| 5 | The opening chapter uses a slightly different method and looks at the greatest variable in improving — namely ourselves , since the way we approach and react to learning greatly affects the end result . |
| 6 | In the first of his ‘ State of Grace ’ reports he looks at the current crises in the Kirk . |
| 7 | This month Cathy Bryan looks at the best buys in sandpits and paddling pools |
| 8 | In practice , since philosophy often proceeds by paying attention to past philosophers and their ideas , the two categories overlapped to some extent with each other , and with a third category , political philosophy , which looks at the political philosophers in the light of the practice and experiences of feminist politics ( see Okin , 1980 ; Elshtain , 1981 ; O'Brien , 1981 ) . |
| 9 | Mum looks at the proffered phone in a slightly puzzled way . |
| 10 | David Goldsmith looks at the latest developments in equipment technology |
| 11 | If one looks at the continuing difficulties in eastern Europe and the disintegration of the Soviet empire , which some now call the UFFR — the union of fewer and fewer republics — one sees that those troubles could trigger off large movements of displaced persons across national frontiers . |