Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters were not improved for the defence when the trial judge refused Mr. Small 's application for the judge to look at the January statement for himself pursuant to section 17 of the Evidence Act . |
| 2 | However , without for the moment looking at the two halves separately , I imagine everyone would be prepared to accept the proposition in theory . |
| 3 | One of the Hunters looked over the android 's body ; its demonic face staring down at the android 's features . |
| 4 | Quarrying companies blast away the sides of beautiful valleys , destroy footpaths , old woodlands , Iron Age settlements and other antiquities and leave areas of the Dales looking like the surface of the moon . |
| 5 | We drove to Stuttgart to drop the boss at the airport then spent the rest of the day looking around the ‘ hot pot ’ of the region , as the locals call it . |
| 6 | I woke up after an hour or so , and just leaned out of the window looking at the half-empty Main Street . |
| 7 | He spent two-thirds of his day at a school ten miles away , and the rest of the afternoon looking through the older children 's comics at Mrs Neary 's until Diane picked him up at five . |
| 8 | If there is an important and difficult question of law , however , I do not anticipate that senior judges will either feel ‘ demeaned ’ or take umbrage at the possibility of the courts looking at the question again on fuller argument . |
| 9 | People walking along the promenade were beginning to stop and lean on the iron bar at the top end of the beach to look at the Africans . |
| 10 | A few pushes and everyone including crowded round the end of the bed to look at the foot . |
| 11 | Peter nodded and drew her to the rail of the river-walk to look over the side . |
| 12 | Obviously I enjoyed having the opportunity to watch any nesting birds so close at hand — I could reach out of my bedroom window , when Mum was n't around , and feel right inside the nest — but many of the neighbours looked on the house martins as pests who infested their property and made a mess . |
| 13 | There is no contentious issue between the parties as to the suitability of the mother to look after the children or as to the suitability of the father to have contact with them . |
| 14 | For details of the series look in the Radio Times or get a list of the programmes , either from Radio Brighton or by writing to me , Doctor Brian Smith at the Physics Building in the university . |
| 15 | Now he then comes on in the second part of the report to look at the fourteen great achievements and I mean two things A what are those achievements and do those achievements back up and support these kinds of very general maybe propaganda kind of stances that Mao is taking up in the first part of this report . |
| 16 | Colin loved the land but he would n't even get out of the van to look at the house . ’ |
| 17 | Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’ |
| 18 | On the small farms the woman of the house looked after the home and the farmyard — stable and cattle-byre , pigsty , hen-house , hayrick and turfrick , the straw-covered pit of turnips and mangels . |
| 19 | This was a ground-floor room which bulged out on the side of the house looking towards the big lawn and the stables . |
| 20 | He closed the door and opened the sliding window in the front of the box looking across the tracks , the clear air showing the gleaming metals of the line . |
| 21 | The Japanese had been very clever in disguising themselves as Burmans and sometimes as Buddhist monks , with the result that many of the troops looked upon the Burmese as a lot of traitors . |
| 22 | The fourth and final section of the chapter looks at the role of the Jews in modernist Berlin . |
| 23 | In fact towards the end of the book looking at the overall picture it seems that everyone else 's life ends happily in marriage apart from Pip 's , and him meeting Estella in the end completes this sort of feeling of his life not being complete.fulfilled . |
| 24 | Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount . |
| 25 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 26 | He said : ‘ Do n't say you 're in too much of a hurry to look into the cathedral before you go . ’ |
| 27 | Willie smiled nervously and leaned with his back against the counter to look at the other materials . |
| 28 | I went behind the music-stool to look at the Greek pottery . |
| 29 | A KING-hell , behind the scenes look at the making of Apocalypse Now , this documentary is hilarious and nerve-wracking ; an infinitely superior proposition to Coppola 's overrated Vietnam epic . |
| 30 | His eyes behind the glasses looked like the full moon shining into two windows . |