Example sentences of "look [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes . |
| 2 | It 's been a long time coming but Syndicate , the latest from Populous and Powermonger creators Bullfrog , looks worth it . |
| 3 | if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know |
| 4 | Looks about it . |
| 5 | One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ? |
| 6 | The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it . |
| 7 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 8 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 9 | And he looks for it when he comes round you see . |
| 10 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 11 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |
| 12 | Naturally she does n't want to get off before having looked for it properly . |
| 13 | You have n't looked for it ? |
| 14 | Have you looked for it ? |
| 15 | I have n't really looked for it . |
| 16 | Well , I do understand it now , because we 've looked through it , but I understand it |
| 17 | I have never bought an aspidistra in my life , and I do n't know how they accumulate on the roof — offerings , perhaps , from the garden-boy who looks after it ? |
| 18 | The third is that God looks after it . |
| 19 | ‘ At my local bookshop , called Ex Libris , in the Shambles at Bradford on Avon , ’ Kington writes , ‘ the man who looks after it once confided to me that his favourite browsing book when no customers were around was Desert Island Lists , which contained the records and books and luxuries chosen by everyone who had been on the programme in the Roy Plomley era . |
| 20 | The user has the option of selecting the number of pixels gap that the anchor points will jump across rather than fitting round but , apart from that , the Macintosh looks after it all . |
| 21 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 22 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
| 23 | cos I says if he looks after it I 'll buy him one with radio on as well |
| 24 | When young children have to be looked after it reduces the opportunities that parents have to take part in the social round . |
| 25 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 26 | It is only fair that tourism should not , like ivy , choke the Alps , since if the ‘ product ’ is not looked after it may slip well past its ‘ sell-by date ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ But as I said , I would have looked after it . ’ |
| 28 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 29 | I have always looked after it because I know that I can not afford another one . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Looks like it , Taff , ’ I agreed . |