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Example sentences of "[pron] look at [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	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 .
3	I looked at him over the roof .
4	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 .
5	I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring
6	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 .
7	‘ It got to the point that if someone looked at me on the street I thought they were responsible . ’
8	Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know .
9	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 .
10	Nobody looked at him from the windows .
11	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 .
12	If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia .
13	So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture
14	You look at it in the dark ?
15	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
16	It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical .
17	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 .
18	I guess I could pass for short and fat if you looked at me through the end of a glass of liquor . ’
19	She looked at me across the dining table , frowned and said , ‘ I do n't see the point . ’
20	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 .
21	She looked at me in the candle-light .
22	She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again .
23	She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way .
24	At the last moment , when the engine blew steam , she let down the window and handed him an envelope addressed to St Ives ; she looked at him with the eyes of one waking from a dangerous dream .
25	She looked at him over the top of her glass .
26	She looked at him over the rim of her glass .
27	She looked at him over the top of her cup .
28	The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource .
29	So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee .
30	Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk .