Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Martin screwed up his eyes and looked towards the hills , saying , ‘ How can you tell from here ? ’
2 And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children .
3 All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects .
4 They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority .
5 The information which is available highlights the importance of disaggregating household-based data on incomes and expenditure patterns and looking at the consequences for the individuals within those households .
6 There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) .
7 The last four articles ( 17–20 ) deal with teachers as individuals and look at the forces and pressures on them .
8 It buys weapons while Iraqi arms purchases are embargoed , and while UN inspectors prowl the Iraqi desert destroying chemical weapons and looking for the places where Mr Hussein may still be trying to build nuclear ones .
9 The male guards the next , aerates the eggs and looks after the larvae until they are able to feed for themselves .
10 She examines the connection between the curriculum and the deviance of boy and girl pupils and looks at the possibilities of combating sexist curricula .
11 Reaching it she climbed a few rungs and looked over the heads of the people and the cockpit where a double ring of candles hung low on iron chains from the rafters , spreading a brilliant pool of light .
12 You finish your work and you want to relax , but you ca n't , because you have to queue for tomatoes or meat and you ca n't find it in this shop , or that , and you have to walk around and spend hours on shopping , then cook and clean and wash clothes and look after the children .
13 Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious .
14 His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines .
15 If your cabinets seem to be constantly overcrowded , open up all the doors and look at the contents with a critical eye .
16 Women are doing what they can in the controlled zones — this means anything from making tortillas and looking after the kids to political and military work .
17 Then , as would often be the case when the wind permitted , I opened the flaps and looked at the stars .
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