Example sentences of "he [vb mod] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She said as much to Bunny , who , after being furnished with certain examples of this refreshing trait , decided he ought to look into the matter . |
2 | If the hon. Gentleman wants to find a worse record in Scotland for waiting lists , he should look at the waiting lists that were left to us by the previous Labour Government . |
3 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
4 | He claimed Mr Marland had agreed he should look after the site and demanded money . |
5 | ‘ Thief ’ thought he should look like the bard |
6 | A pleasant spoken young constable arrived at Riverview with a warrant and asked if he might look over the boat . |
7 | When he crouched in the gap between the attic door and the first curve of the banister , he could look through the rails and see right along the ground-floor corridor to the kitchen . |
8 | He reached the top of the wall and , lying flat on the thatch , pulled himself quickly upwards until his body lay slanting just under the spine and , by raising himself a fraction , he could look over the roof-tree and down to where the beach lay . |
9 | It was like driving the machines around an invisible Wall of Death Lambert found that he could look across the circle and see right inside the German pilot 's cockpit . |
10 | I got offered a part-time job in a bakery at the weekends , and he said he 'd look after the kids , but he never did , so I could n't do it . |
11 | And we used to get very worked up about it , and then we went down to fetch our wages , and the older ones were always going to complain , but this erm tt er son of the people , he used to look at the factory clock opposite , and it would be half past three , and he 'd said , Right , I 'll pay you till three o'clock , and we 'll make it right next week . |
12 | Well there was er the one who had the most important influence in my school life was Albert Edward , do you remember the printers , he was a teacher and he used to teach standard four , that was your last standard in the junior , and he had a big influence on , on me because er he wanted me to go into the printing trade as an apprentice , but I , me leaving school at thirteen and going into full-time work straight away I could n't do , do that but oh there was er , , he was an officer during the war he was in the and there was oh our , our school teacher , we used to call , we used to call him his name was actually Arthur I think , but he was always , he was a little bit addicted to the lit little whisky bottle , he used to keep a little bottle in his desk and he 'd be having a nip of whisky , but he was what was approximated as a sports master now , he used to look after the football team , we used to call him , I suppose his name was Arthur but his name was . |
13 | He said that the magazine was in good health and that they had not even had to obtain a ‘ medical opinion ’ on the subject ( it was of course supported partly by a subsidy from Lady Rothermere ) , but that he would look into the Radcliffe Camera question . |
14 | If the hon. Gentleman were interested in patient care , instead of opposing NHS trust proposals in principle , he would look at the merits of the proposals and decide whether they should go ahead on the basis of the interests of patient care — and that is precisely what my right hon. Friend will do . |
15 | Five feet three , immensely strong — ‘ could pick up a thirteen-stone man by the seat of his pants ’ — a craftsman collier — ‘ he would look at the seam of coal … take a Number Two mandrel [ a half-headed pick ] and if he hit it just right , something like twenty tons of coal would fall out of the coal face ’ — and a man with a ‘ love of words , the longer the better ’ . |
16 | As the hon. Gentleman obviously takes econometric models to bed with him , I wonder whether he would look at the implications of Liberal Democrat policy on one of the small industries to which his party is committed — the armed forces . |
17 | put it in Ex parte Benson ( No. 2 ) , The Times , 21 November 1988 , Mr. Brittan said that he would look to the judges for advice , not orders . |
18 | This said that he would look to the judiciary , as in the past , for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence . |
19 | He would look after the government on as much of a care and maintenance basis as circumstances permitted , deciding only urgent matters and then only with Cabinet consent if this were possible . |
20 | If I had a son he would look after the goats and go fishing with my husband . |
21 | Not only did this geezer Kev Knowles agree to turn out for us , he also said he would look after the programme as long as he could incorporate a number of religious tracts . |
22 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
23 | He will look at the premises as a whole , the fittings , facilities and equipment . |
24 | And he will look at the plans for the oil refinery which he is destined to build on this land . |
25 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
26 | Shop steward 's chairman who was one of a delegation of six who later had a meeting with Minister for Energy Tim Eggar , said : ‘ We were encouraged by the promises of support we got from the MPs and the Minister has said he will look at the pension scheme position . ’ |
27 | The more varied or diversified the business of the client , and the larger the amount of insurance to be placed , the more likely it is that he will look around the market for himself in order to obtain the best terms . |