Example sentences of "we looked [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From West Hide and from Grizedale Hide we looked through slit windows on to extensive pools .
2 I think we looked to Peter , North Yorkshire .
3 This is one of the problems under which the law labours , because of course , if we did n't accept that it 's individual guilt that counts , and we looked to group guilt , then that in itself is an infringement of civil liberties and human rights , you are being judged not according to your acts but according to the acts of others erm with whom you happened to associate , even though your conduct may not in itself be reprehensible .
4 After three hours we looked for land .
5 We looked for years but could n't find her .
6 Finally , we looked for ways of making secondments as effective as possible from the outset .
7 We looked for squirrels red squirrel and grey squirrel — live happily side by side at Vyrnwy — but today they were deep in the forest .
8 We looked for redress from the Mamur Zapt and received none .
9 We looked into Christine Daaé 's dressing-room , but … but there was nobody there ! ’
10 In our discussion of delinquency in contemporary society ( Chapter 3 , pp. 34–35 ) we looked at Paul Corrigan 's study of working-class boys in the north-east of England .
11 In issue 39 we looked at directories and subdirectories .
12 So we let them go on in their grubby little greedy ways while we looked at papers and account books and took an inventory of the wine-cellar and just watched how the system operated . ’
13 In Chapter 2 we looked at sources of information and at how to gather material .
14 In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect .
15 Stephen Tapper , director of development services , said : ‘ We looked at problems with access to Snipe Lane , drainage and landscape as well as various other issues .
16 We looked at things like how to abseil off a cliff hundreds of feet high , while protecting the person you are guiding at all times .
17 We looked at reasons for installing a network , fitting and configuring the network interface card ( NIC ) , managing precious memory , and testing the installation .
18 Relationships , similar figures , now we we looked at that , and we looked at scale , erm , and I think last time we were looking at things like though , not too long ago we were looking at price of council paper and this sort of stuff , which one shall we buy ?
19 We sneer at the European Parliament , but it is time that we looked at Europe in other than a partisan way — ’ Ha ha , ha .
20 On Sydney suburban grounds we looked at teams clash , Wests and Souths , St George and Balmain , Norths and Detective Sergeant Bumper Farrell 's Newtown Bluebags , and decided that this or that lock or halfback would cut a swathe on heavy northern grounds in England .
21 As I recall it , that we did n't have a week during August where everybody was here , indeed we looked at diaries .
22 Then , widening our focus , we looked at Lugbara witchcraft and the ancestor cult which complements and completes it .
23 It was the way we looked at life back in the mid-60s . ’
24 We looked at Wembley Arena and the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham and we said ‘ no ’ .
25 We looked at variations in perceptions across the electorate to see whether television , the press , or both had any influence .
26 We looked at channel activation , either by voltage or by ligands , and decided that activation is almost invariably achieved by effects on the gating mechanism .
27 When we looked at group psychology and analysis of the ego , we saw that it was processes that occur in the ego , such as identification and projection , that make social groups possible , that bring about the social order of psychological groups .
28 In Chapter 3 , we looked at explanations for the differences in male and female criminality .
29 We looked at Rembrandt 's raddled Venus
30 IN Part II we looked at advice and information .
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