Example sentences of "[adv] look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was just looking at you against the lights of the city , ’ she says . |
| 2 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 3 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 4 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 5 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 6 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 7 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 8 | Oh , this , this is a very important book of course and one of the , one of the astonishing things is the way totally ignored and if you look through even people who write about psychoanalyses and the social sciences and there 's a lot of them , this book is hardly ever mentioned and I , I normally nowadays routinely look for it in the , in the references and index an and many books th that purport to talk about groups and sociology is never mentioned I think , and those that do do n't ever seem to understand what it says . |
| 9 | When little Nell enters the labourer 's hut , we supposedly look around it with the eyes of the child . |
| 10 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 11 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 12 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 13 | Whitlock smiled at her then looked beyond her at the couple on the sofa . |
| 14 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 15 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
| 16 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 17 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |