Example sentences of "[adv] to look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the feminist critique should not encourage us only to look at girls . |
| 2 | You had only to look at holiday romances , she told herself , or shipboard affairs , to know that unfamiliar surroundings and propinquity acted as a hothouse , a forcing ground for unrealistic situations . |
| 3 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 4 | She had only to look at Mrs Jebeau 's face to see it ; in fact , she could smell trouble in that direction . |
| 5 | You have only to look at Northampton to see the truth of this . |
| 6 | But he had needed only to look at Lorrimer 's face during the past month to know that . |
| 7 | I 'm grown up enough to look after Satan . |
| 8 | Accused of hen-stealing , fox and vixen had once again insisted on going back to their lair alone to look for feathers . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for Durham police said officers were paid overtime to look after prisoners . |
| 10 | PARTS of the City will stay open throughout election night tonight to look after clients while others will start earlier than usual tomorrow . |
| 11 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 12 | He obviously has heeded Ruskin 's advice not just to look at things but to ‘ watch ’ them . |
| 13 | Just to look at Dana fully clothed was enough to give me an erection . |
| 14 | So in the future we also have a lot to give to the rest of the world rather than just to look for help . |
| 15 | People go elsewhere to look for houses . |
| 16 | She turned slowly to look towards Tallis , her eyes fierce , her mouth twisted with fury . |
| 17 | Subject to obtaining a magistrate 's warrant , police officers may also enter premises forcibly to look for evidence of a serious arrestable offence ( ranging from murder and rape to any act which has led or might lead to public disorder , or , vaguer still , acts which might interfere with the effective administration of justice ) . |
| 18 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 19 | IF YOU want to know what the future holds for Europe 's financial markets , the best guess is usually to look at America 's present . |
| 20 | Few people realise just how basic is the need deliberately to look for alternatives . |
| 21 | What is much more important is deliberately to look for alternatives even when the present answer or proposal seems highly satisfactory . |
| 22 | All you had to do was telephone me , and I would have come at once to look after Kirsty . ’ |
| 23 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 24 | She wished Evie had not spoken , since she found it difficult now to look at Lionel without wondering whether that day , or the day before , some poor child had been sold to him . |
| 25 | At Ogata , in Kochi prefecture , 44 boats are now taking tourists from three ports , mainly to look at Bryde 's whales . |
| 26 | This study involves asking subjects to perform the dot location task and another task accessing the right hemisphere simultaneously to look for reduction in left field advantage for the dot location task a result . |
| 27 | I trudged up to the camp-site again , to find that there was no need even to look for driftwood for a fire . |
| 28 | So strong was this hankering for the Gothic and everything that went with it that many of them refused even to look at nature first-hand , but looked at it through a special lens called a Claude-glass , Claude being a French painter of the Gothic who designed his glass especially for looking at ancient ruins and alpine chasms . |
| 29 | She refused even to look at Ace , although her body clamoured with a painful intensity as soon as he came to stand next to her . |
| 30 | This questionnaire , the driver behaviour questionnaire ( DBQ ) , was designed particularly to look at driving errors from the type of perspective Reason has adopted elsewhere ( e.g. Reason , 1984 , 1990 ; Reason & Mycielska , 1982 ) , however , it additionally provides an important insight into the frequency of various types of memory failure in driving . |