Example sentences of "look [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See there again we can come on here , and we can look down the back of . |
| 2 | But they were some well on , lo and behold , could open the door er two or three minutes late and c er call the er number , Yes sir , er as they entered the class and they would get their mark , this being I think you got a red mark if you were late , t to stand out so that an inspector who came down periodically could look down the register and there was the record of who was early and who was late by the colour of the ink-pens , I think . |
| 3 | I did n't look down the footpath which led to the buttercup fields where Dotty Harmer lived , for they were there no more , and I ignored the traffic which came down the New Yatt Road . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd better go and look over the script before dinner , ’ she told him without meeting his eyes . |
| 5 | ‘ There was a time recently when a friend of mine said she was in love and could I look up the man in question 's chart and tell her the truth ? |
| 6 | The bloke behind the counter said , look , I 've just got to go and look up the year of manufacture , I 'll be back in a couple of minutes . |
| 7 | And I would dare those of you who would look up the newspaper clippings of that occasion and challenge that view , because you would find a much different reading in those newspaper clips than what I learnt many years later , trudging round the island , Personally I thought that I was being particularly clever bombing a seaplane that was taking off , It was only when I was serving on Sylt in the fifties that I learned that this was in fact a tug ( or you might call it a barge , a sea-going barge ) on the end of 100 metres of line , that was being towed . |
| 8 | Then you should first look up the subject in the subject index . |
| 9 | You can look up the sections in the library . |
| 10 | The great value of this is that the searcher can look up the name of an author known to have published in the field of interest and , if any previously published work of the author has been cited , the item will appear along with the names of the citing authors . |
| 11 | now this particular question , this , it 's a very solemn and searching question , it belongs to a group of three questions found in the New Testament which have to do with a matter of salvation , the first one is , we wo n't look up the reference and that for time this morning , the first one is the question that the disciples put to Jesus , who then can be saved , that 's in Matthew , chapter nineteen , then there 's this one in Luke thirteen , are there few that be saved and then that very , very personal question that was put not to Jesus but to Paul by the Philippinean jailer in act sixteen , what must I do to be saved , three questions in the new testaments about salvation , who then can be saved , are there few that be saved , what must I do to be saved , you know as Christians you possibly found yourself , asking yourself the , the same question that these people put to Jesus , why are there so few Christians , look about our own town , think of your own neighbourhood , your own street , think of the place where you work how few there are who are followers of Jesus Christ , how few there are who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ to of receive him as their saviour , who 've have accepted him as saviour , how few there are when you compare it er to all the others who are rejecting him and er who are living their life regardless , how true it is that the great majority of people seem in , in this present day to have little time for God or for the things of God , they 've got time for all sorts of other things , but God and his claim on their life is crowded out , how many there are like that , how few there are who have submitted to Jesus Christ and have received him as their saviour or so it seems . |
| 12 | So you can , so if you feel that you 're a bit , you need a bit of practice in a certain area , you can literally look up the type of course that would benefit you the most . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 14 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 15 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 16 | Unlike everybody else , however , the hard man did not look up the neighbourhood exorcist in Thompson 's Local Directory . |
| 17 | The judge may look up the meaning of a word in a dictionary or technical work ; but this ordinary meaning may be controlled by the particular context . |
| 18 | Using one of these you can look up the code number on a can of beans , magazine , or whatever , and the relevant entry will give the string of text for that particular code . |
| 19 | Now , while you go and dry those eyes , I 'll look up the trains . ’ |
| 20 | I 'll look out the champagne . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll just look out the window . |
| 22 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
| 23 | We will call this backwards pruning because , at the point where more than one path has the same successor , the algorithm can look back the way it has come , and mark or retain only the highest scoring path . |