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Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] look [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I 've got to look towards the future , but I ca n't really see anything , not the way I feel .
2	We 've got to look at the recession that we are in .
3	Before you really get down to doing anything , you 've got to look at the problem , and , and really sort of try and analyse what is going on , and what bit of the problem are you going to work on .
4	erm Nonetheless , while we want to carry on supporting that , we 've also got to think , as Jack said , erm of as we enter the next century what is going to be right for our children , and we know that in many ways we have failed them and we know that we are producing many children who have n't had the training and the education that 's going to be necessary for us to be erm economically competent in the future , so we 've got to look at the whole of our educational provision , and frankly I think opting out was erm a sort of unnecessary blip on all of this that is n't really terribly important in the whole issue of how the children in this country should be educated .
5	No but you see , you 've got to look at the type of , we look at the type of illnesses that people suffer from in a minute , and sort of , you know , a day here , a week there , somebody has a month somewhere else .
6	It 's a bit like what we 've been doing before where you 've got to look at the money .
7	You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility
8	You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility
9	I 've bothered , I 've gone looking for the child inside myself .
10	And now that we 've started to look after the building we 've actually discovered some very exciting and interesting small clues about the building .
11	In that context I have had to look at the definition of a specific issue order which is contained in section 8(1) of the Act and I know , from talking to those who have been concerned with this Act and are familiar with it , that they have no doubt at all as to what that definition means .
12	Now the Queen 's household cavalry have offered to look after the horse and it 'll be transported to its new home early next year .
13	Local Labour councillors Frank Robson and Alan Robinson have promised to look into the situation , which is still under review by the council 's works and health committee .
14	Following a request at the annual parish meeting , councillors have agreed to look into the cost of providing a shelter to be sited on an existing area of hard standing .
15	They have agreed to look into the pensioner 's plight as a matter of urgency if Miss Early gets in touch .
16	For my GCSE Open Study I have chosen to look at the theme of obsessional love in ‘ The Collector ’ by John Fowles and ‘ The Great Gatsby ’ by F. Scott Fitzgerald .