Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems . |
| 2 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 3 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 4 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 5 | I looked at him across the table like you look at a pet dog that 's enjoying the Nourishing Marrowbone Jelly you 've just given it . |
| 6 | I looked at him over the roof . |
| 7 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 8 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |
| 9 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 10 | Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them . |
| 11 | ‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’ |
| 12 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 13 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 14 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 15 | Nobody looked at him from the windows . |
| 16 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 17 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 18 | So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture |
| 19 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 20 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 21 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 22 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 23 | ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’ |
| 24 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 25 | I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’ |
| 26 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 27 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 28 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 29 | She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’ |
| 30 | My tutor was a delightful stern lady , and I remember when I had written about John 's gospel , the epistles of John , and the book of Revelation , she looked at me over the top of her spectacles and announced ‘ Young man , you have assumed that because these books have all been attributed to a man named John , that they are all by the same person , who was also an apostle . |