Example sentences of "look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 4 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 5 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 6 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 7 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 8 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ Let's take all the little bastard 's clothes off , and see how he looks as a nigger . ’ |
| 10 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 11 | She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex . |
| 12 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 13 | Cricket : Inquest looks for a victim : Derek Hodgson examines the problems facing today 's gathering of the Headingley hierarchy |
| 14 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 15 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 16 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 17 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 18 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 19 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 20 | As the printing program traverses the semantic net and generates headings on paper , it first looks for a ‘ title ’ attribute . |
| 21 | Overall , Siemens AG was able to give little cheer to shareholders , and the shares were off 2.30 marks at 663.10 early yesterday after the company warned that it would be counted a success if 1992-93 profits were stable with last year — incoming orders in the first five months of this fiscal fell 2% , although it looks for a 4.7% rise for the full year ; group sales in the first five months rose 3% to the equivalent of about $18,500m . |
| 22 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 23 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 24 | If results do not occur , the marketing director , or , worse , the managing director , looks for a scapegoat , human nature being what it is . |
| 25 | It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit . |
| 26 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 27 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 28 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 29 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 30 | TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season |