Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 2 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 3 | The House may be interested to know that , because we were seeking to look at the effect of NHS management reforms over the first six months , we did not draw attention to the fact that the number of people who have been waiting for more than one year on in-patient lists is 37 per cent . |
| 4 | Because of the constraints of space , the number of guests had to be severely limited but during the afternoon more visitors were invited to look around the Lodge and see for themselves this latest jewel in the Association 's welfare crown . |
| 5 | Soldiers were beginning to look at the clock and fumble with equipment , apparently preparing for a guard change . |
| 6 | Although BT said they were continuing to look at the results of the experiment , initial findings included the fact that not only was BT satisfied with productivity achieved but the staff themselves were only too sorry to see it end . |
| 7 | found that when right handers were asked to look to the left while hearing such sets of words , decisions were made on non-semantic grounds significantly more often than when subjects looked to the right . |
| 8 | At the same time , more IBMers were encouraged to look at the outside via secondments or community links . |
| 9 | Unemployed workers were encouraged to look on the NUWM as a " trade union of the unemployed " acting as far as possible as their representative . |
| 10 | His sight was coming back but he still seemed to have some uneven blindness , as if he were trying to look at the world through a ragged hole in a postage stamp . |
| 11 | In 1935 Bill Pedler and his wife were appointed as Club Stewards , in addition to Bill being the Professional , and Suttons were engaged to look after the course for a year . |
| 12 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 13 | She was pretending to look at the people who were passing in the street , but Burun was not deceived . |
| 14 | ‘ She made it clear no decision had been taken and she was going to look at the Tomlinson Report with a totally objective view , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Oh that 's what I was going to look at the brushes |
| 16 | A Christian bishop was bound to look in the Bible for precedents for his mode of action ; and what he found had many remarkable analogies with his own predicament . |
| 17 | In Burt 's day an army of 50 men was employed to look after the Durlston estate , but after a century it had become neglected : overgrown with foliage , fallen walls and rusty wartime installations . |
| 18 | I was a bodyguard for a little while — not a very successful one , really , I was the weediest bodyguard that you 've ever seen , but I was hired to look after the Sheikh of Quatar — she 's a female . |
| 19 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 20 | Its origins go back to 1970 when a specially commissioned task force of the National Heart and Lung Institute ( as it then was ) , was asked to look into the feasibility of a trial which would settle , once and for all , the question of whether dietary change could , on its own , reduce the frequency of heart attacks in the American population . |
| 21 | The teenager was asked to look around the court and he said he thought he recognised Sutherland as the man . |
| 22 | First , an Open Forum in October called for significantly better club facilities — notably the men 's changing rooms , and a Development Sub-Committee was constituted to look at the suggestion and ways of financing it . |
| 23 | A committee was appointed to look into the disagreements , and having failed to persuade Mr. and Mrs. Harvey to prolong their leave , allowed their temporary replacements to depart ( with testimonials ) . |
| 24 | A sub-committee was appointed to look into the matter , and the master subsequently apologised and paid the sum of £7 to the common fund of the Union . |
| 25 | It was forced to look at the issue again by the introduction of new legislation . |
| 26 | But Mr Millar , who was instrumental in introducing new financial controls at the company and was forced to look after the communications side after Mr Simonds-Gooding 's departure , has also gone . |
| 27 | Evening rush-hour traffic in Liverpool city centre was halted during the alert , in which the gunman was spotted looking through the sights at potential targets . |
| 28 | Not one returned , and the Shirley family was left to look after the squadron mascot Darkie , a little dog who usually took to the air as well . |
| 29 | So you got the whole spectrum of , or if you 're just doing it like French dictation , it wo n't , if words tend to just , to just be spoken language , right through to an immensely detailed erm , attempts to put everything down , including tone of the voice , and all these other ones which are extremely difficult to I think you noticed that I was standing looking at the transcriptions near each team . |
| 30 | This morning a special meeting was held to look to the future . |