Example sentences of "to look [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 2 | The violent hammering continued and Jenna crept out of bed to look down into the dark courtyard . |
| 3 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 4 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 5 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 6 | After a few moments he began walking , pausing once to look up at the grand facade of the Shelbourne . |
| 7 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 8 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 9 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 10 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 11 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 12 | ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills . |
| 13 | In this situation , it is often useful to look back at the good things you have achieved and the good times you 've enjoyed in the past . |
| 14 | It may be questioned whether this change achieves very much of a practical nature since ( a ) one still needs to look back at the common law of detinue to determine what constitutes the new form of conversion and ( b ) there still survive two torts of interference with property which have a considerable overlap with conversion , i.e . |
| 15 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 16 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 17 | So my visits to the Ainsworth home were frequent but undemanding , and I had ample opportunity to look out for the little cat which had intrigued me . |
| 18 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 19 | Before she undressed , Nicandra pulled back the window curtains , cold as glass in her hands , and stood between them to look out at the changed world . |
| 20 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 21 | Everybody in the house loved to move in the warmth and luxury of it , to look out from the bright room at the rain spilling steadily down between the trees . |
| 22 | To look out upon the infinite worlds of Bruno was to be lost on a shoreless sea . |
| 23 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |