Example sentences of "[conj] look [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 2 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 3 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 4 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 5 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 6 | He again knew what it was to feel embarrassed when , on the Monday dinner time , he went into the NAAM , and looking at her over the counter , he said , ‘ Hello there , ’ and she answered , ‘ Hello , yourself . ’ |
| 7 | She demurred a little when he said , picking up his teacup , and looking at her over the top of it , ‘ You never answered my question , Miss McAllister . |
| 8 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 9 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
| 10 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
| 11 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 12 | 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes . |
| 13 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 14 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 15 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 16 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 17 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 18 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 19 | During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them . |
| 20 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 21 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 22 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 23 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 24 | They combined erm the four hundred and fifty odd erm four hundred and seventeen sorry patients in er several M R C studies and looked at them from the point of view of erm prognostic markers for occurrence and they came up with two factors which overridingly were more important than the others . |
| 25 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 27 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 28 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 29 | When I eventually weighed under six stone and looked at myself in the mirror ( which , in common with other anorexics , I did a great deal ) I saw someone beautiful : I saw myself . |
| 30 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |