Example sentences of "looks [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 4 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 5 | The recruiter looks for the index card , and finds it is not there . |
| 6 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 7 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 8 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 9 | Looks for the support of Graham and finds it . |
| 10 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 11 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 12 | The second cell looks after the rotorcure process , which laminates the plies of PVC film that comprise the tile material . |
| 13 | In the common river genus Cottus , or sticklebacks , or seashore blennies , the male defends a territory ; the female visits him , lays her eggs , which he then fertilizes ; the female departs ; and the male then looks after the eggs . |
| 14 | But from Monday to Friday , BHSI qualified head girl Hilary Dodd , together with three assistants , looks after the horses and stables . |
| 15 | Who looks after the horses at weekends now |
| 16 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 17 | Someone who looks after the youngsters and is co-operative . |
| 18 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 19 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |
| 20 | He looks after the preparation of the balance sheet and deals with the tax inspector . ’ |
| 21 | San Jose-based Chips & Technologies Inc has come out with a universal input-output controller with a parallel port to accelerate printing under Microsoft Corp Windows and other graphic user interfaces : called the 82C735 , the controller looks after the printing with Printgine , an enhanced bi-directional parallel port interface that can transfer data at a rate claimed to be 100 times faster than existing systems , sending up to 2M-bytes per second of data to printers , scanners , local area networks , tape back-up systems and other peripherals connected to a parallel port . |
| 22 | Dennis also looks after the fruit cage and the greenhouse , where he grows scented plants for the house , like stephanotis and jasmine . |
| 23 | The father promises to pay the mother up to £1 per week so long as the mother looks after the child . |
| 24 | So if you can imagine the food being cooked in there and if you like , plated up in here and while the butler , the man who works in the butlery or the buttery does the drink , the pantler , the man who looks after the bread is plating the food out there . |
| 25 | The mining er er you know the there 's a a body which looks after the mining |
| 26 | Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns . |
| 27 | The male guards the next , aerates the eggs and looks after the larvae until they are able to feed for themselves . |
| 28 | I told you , I was it was only the man who looks after the buildings . |
| 29 | Reg Jones also looks after the Bromborough depot on Merseyside . |
| 30 | However , Steve 's 20-year-old son Mark looks after the dogs when dad 's away . |