Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather , my aim is to look at the kinds of assumption that informed the various strands of positivist criminology , and at the way they differed from classical assumptions in both theory and practice . |
| 2 | but , then the next morning of course when Wendy got home she 'd been down my nephew 's looking after the kids for them and erm , and said we 've come to arrest you , and no , oh Rachael said oh mum there 's a police car pulled up outside , so she said , oh my god do n't tell me they 're wrong and it is Tracey , cos Tracey 's left home , she 's gone to live with her friend and erm , anyway , when Wendy got to the stairs she could n't go in , she could n't go any further and she said erm , when , when the policeman said Mrs I 've come to arrest you , she just about said Christ she said what have I done ? |
| 3 | My surgeon was looking at the past , not the present . |
| 4 | Their technique is to look for the process known as ‘ inverse beta decay ’ , in which an electron- anti neutrino reacts with a proton to produce a positron ( positive electron ) and a neutron . |
| 5 | So contrasting is it that one may wonder whether its adherents are looking at the same thing at all : ‘ As the eighties unfold , humanity faces a worldwide shortage of productive cropland , acute land hunger in many countries , escalating prices for farmland almost everywhere … ’ |
| 6 | They had warned her at the start there would be complicated things going on , and not to try to understand them , that her job was looking after the baby . |
| 7 | Jackie says her role is to look after the horse and make sure he 's ready on time and looking right and also to judge whether he 's in a good mood or bad mood … she says 's he 's a good horse |
| 8 | The major part of their enquiry is looking at the income to which a priest , be he active or retired , is entitled and whether when taken together with other sources there is a liability to tax arising on that income . |
| 9 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 10 | He says it 's hard in a new league with new players but his job is to look at the positive things and not the negative ones . |
| 11 | Ian White says he 's not surprised that his colleagues are looking into the matter . |
| 12 | ‘ Our business was looking after the traveller and our mission was to provide security and peace of mind , ’ says John Petersen , vice president of public affairs for Travel Related Services . |
| 13 | It will be looking at the needs of the lay reps the role of full-time officers the way we distribute the up to date information and one of the most vital to our organization is to look at the role of health and safety in the recruitment and retention of membership . |