Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] look [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 2 | I now realise I looked for the wrong things . |
| 3 | Lewis found himself looking at the back page of The Oxford Times which lay on the desk . |
| 4 | But instead of the greed-crazed madman he expected , he found himself looking into the round red face of a Sergeant of the Watch . |
| 5 | It was then he knew for certain that the oriental he had just shot was not the one from whom he had wanted to exact retribution for injuring Pam — because at the other end of the corridor he found himself looking into the glittering black eyes of his hated enemy , Angel One . |
| 6 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 7 | The last time she had woken from sleep it had been to find herself looking into the blue eyes of a dangerous enemy ; now the enemy was a friend . |
| 8 | Beth shuffled her feet in the awkward silence and found herself looking at the second man more closely . |
| 9 | Glad that her limited knowledge of Danish included an apology , she blinked away her tears , raising her eyes to the stranger 's face and freezing as completely as Lot 's wife as she found herself looking into the ice-blue eyes of the man she loved . |
| 10 | A sound had her spinning round and she found herself looking into the astonished eyes of Marie as the girl slid from her bicycle and walked forwards to confront her . |
| 11 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 12 | Leave the PR firms to produce the glossy releases and charge their clients accordingly , and let yours look like the raw news that it is . |
| 13 | For a girl who has school trophies for athletics and swimming in the family cabinet , who supports Liverpool and whose favourite player is Steffi Graf , Bradnam is getting an achiever who looks to the best in sport for her inspiration . |
| 14 | Barclays says it looks after the financial affairs of some 150 ‘ high technology ’ companies in Cambridge : three years ago the figure was 15 . |
| 15 | Where was such-and-such street , I asked , or the beautiful shop where my mother regularly bought her hats and gloves , or the church with the gilded domes , or the cake shop which had such a show of delicate confections at Christmas time , or the butcher 's where I could hardly bring myself to look at the great sides of dead meat hanging on hooks , or the musty bookshop , smelling of dust and leather , kept by the bent old man whose white hair seemed to be falling off the back of his head , leaving his bald crown all shiny and hopeful and new ? |
| 16 | Let us look at the various yarns that are spun on cones . |
| 17 | So , let us look at the various forms of communication . |
| 18 | So let us look at the present day , and to take this wording , do you consider that it is now appropriate that Skelton should expand any further ? |
| 19 | Now let us look at the possible combinations . |
| 20 | In the meantime , let us look at the above five sets of objections in more detail . |
| 21 | Let us look at the second half of the twentieth century . |
| 22 | Let us look at the latter first . |
| 23 | To help us decide how much liquid to make up let us look at the appropriate dosages for each of Hahnemann 's suggestions . |
| 24 | Firstly , let us look at the wider influence of the Chicago School . |
| 25 | Let us look at the empirical approach in a concrete instance . |
| 26 | Let us look at the first problem first . |
| 27 | Let us look at the three processes in more detail — the hopes and the fears invested in the processes and the inherent problems if one process is too predominant over the others . |
| 28 | First , let us look at the Christian idea of creation . |
| 29 | The site was off-limits to the public but the resident warden 's wife let us look around the bath-house area as a favour to our guide who was a friend of hers . |
| 30 | Erm , I 'll not go through the whole of this table sir , but I do want you to look at the next column , outstanding planning permissions . |