Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social psychologists need to train their eyes to look beyond the brightly coloured petals or luxuriant foliage to examine these small seeds contained within the presently flowering plant . |
| 2 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 3 | Red-figure turns out to combine the silhouette-principle , dear to vase-decorators for its strength on the curved surface , with the freedom of outline drawing ; and this encourages its practitioners to look outside the closed tradition of their craft to the work of painters on flat surfaces ( cf. fig. 45 , painted perhaps about the time of red-figure 's inception ) . |
| 4 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |
| 5 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |
| 6 | It would be easy to dismiss scanned photographs as simply worthless and suggest that you just leave a gap in the page and let your printer look after the problem for you . |
| 7 | And then , turning its head to look round the workshops , it said , ‘ We do not ask of you that you give us your slaves , Robemaker , for it is vital that the Looms are kept weaving . |
| 8 | Give him time to look at the word . |
| 9 | Serve them right , he thought vindictively and then , imitated at his own childishness , turned his head to look at the other people arranged alongside him , the desk 's shining expanse of polished wood reflecting their faces as twisted white blobs . |
| 10 | He turned his head to look at the mantelpiece . |
| 11 | And if we were to cut further in any significant way , then we would undermine our capacity to look after the defence interests of our country . |
| 12 | He was imprisoned up there , beneath the lead roof , ’ Lucenzo said , pulling her close , his head against hers as she craned her neck to look at the pink and white Doges ' Palace . |
| 13 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 14 | Welcome back : Now we continue our series looking into the unique regime that operates behind the walls of Grendon prison . |
| 15 | He got his brother to look after the bar for an hour or so , bundled Maidstone into a taxi driven by a friend of his and set off for Maidstone 's apartment in the Vomero . |
| 16 | The Brigade Major informed me that the Brigadier 's party would be in the restaurant for at least one-and-a-half hours , which gives me time to look around the town . |
| 17 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 18 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 19 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 20 | Quit wasting your time looking at the sky . ’ |
| 21 | But look up once from that paper , get up from the table to make coffee or stir the fire , even just raise your head to look at the view outside the window , and you may as well give up until tomorrow . |