Example sentences of "[conj] look at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Get up and look at yourselves in the mirror . |
| 10 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 11 | There is nobody here who ca n't wake up in the morning and look at himself in the mirror . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 15 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 16 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I stood up and looked at myself in the mirror . |
| 19 | She struggled into the blue dress and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 20 | Alice put the telephone down carefully , and looked at herself in the small , oval mirror hanging above it on the wall . |
| 21 | She clipped the long , dark swathes of her hair back from her face with a couple of combs ; then she slowly walked over and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 22 | She got up shortly after , and looked at herself in the mirror . |
| 23 | But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be |
| 24 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |