Example sentences of "the [noun] to look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 've heard a lot about what happens here and they 've had the opportunity to look around . |
| 2 | Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing . |
| 3 | This month I 'd like to take the opportunity to look back at the current series of articles featuring the Pentatonic scale , taking stock of our command of the scale all over the fretboard . |
| 4 | He beckoned her in , and took her to the rail to look over . |
| 5 | On the day John-Augustus went char fishing on Buttermere with Mr Robinson and Mary went above the woods to look down on them , Coleridge passed between them . |
| 6 | She paused in the doorway to look round at him . |
| 7 | Whitlock paused in the doorway to look back at Rachel . |
| 8 | Early of Ely and Family ’ ( 1771 ) in which the richly clad Earl , the Countess and their two musical daughters sway elegantly in front of an idealised Greek temple set in their newly designed gardens while a small African boy dressed in a combination of Turkish and Indian costume holds up the Earl 's diadem , curiously peering round the Countess to look up at his owner . |
| 9 | She swung her legs over the edge of the bed and went over to the window to look down at the courtyard . |
| 10 | Toby went to the window to look down , then pulled his head back in , his face pale with fear . |
| 11 | While he waited , Coffin went to the window to look out . |
| 12 | Coffin laid the papers aside and went to the window to look out . |
| 13 | The room she was using was at the back of the house , and as she got up and walked over to the window to look out she could see a panorama of fields lying lush and green under a cloudless May sky . |
| 14 | I jumped and slid down the slope of the dune into its shadow , then turned at the bottom to look back up at those small heads and bodies as they watched over the northern approaches to the island . |
| 15 | They sat around one end of the work table , which now seemed vast and empty , and Alina Peterson explained how she 'd walked down to the village to look around and , where it seemed appropriate , to introduce herself . |
| 16 | Whitlock said , pausing in front of the desk to look down at Kolchinsky . |
| 17 | His new tone of seriousness gave her the courage to look round . |
| 18 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
| 19 | And having proved that , in rugby as in business , they are quick learners who are very adept at recycling ideas , the Taiwanese could well be the team to look out for come September . |
| 20 | Lee turned her head to the right to look down at him . |
| 21 | One gang , which consisted of four coachmakers and two labourers , prepared and placed all timber , panels and other materials on the spot where it was required , and no man who was engaged on actual repairs was required to leave the job to look up any material . |
| 22 | This cobbled route is still a joy to follow ; the top half of it , as it curves down to the church and the river , lined with sober houses built from the local cocoa-coloured stone and dating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries — datable precisely in some cases from the inscribed lintel stones ; then the church , seventeenth-century and disappointingly dull ; the old bridge over the Nive , which is the place to look up — and downstream , at the houses built along the banks with their projecting wooden galleries ; and then on towards the Porte d'Espagne , past the shops and more very decent old houses . |
| 23 | Allow the viewers to look around on their own . |
| 24 | The wines to look out for include the ruby-red Agilanico del Vulture . |
| 25 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 26 | He took them two at a time , pausing at the top to look back across the square . |
| 27 | ‘ We leave winter behind us , it seems , ’ Tagan said , turning in the saddle to look back at the still-white hills . |
| 28 | The road back was easy and she had the chance to look around . |
| 29 | Paul , in these verses , allows himself the chance to look back with his readers , and see the results of twenty years of Christian service . |
| 30 | The opportunity to go away from the school and work in a different atmosphere and with people who might have a different perspective on the management of organizations would give me the chance to look back into the school more objectively and question some of the assumptions I had grown to accept . |