Example sentences of "look [prep] the [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 2 | It was given to delay the police operation to find the bomb and officers were half a mile away looking for the bomb at the Stock Exchange . ’ |
| 3 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 4 | Maybe she believed him , for Rufus had once caught her lifting the lid and looking into the jar at the wood ash Adam had scraped up from the site of the handkerchief man 's last bonfire . |
| 5 | For the briefest of instants , I was standing up looking in the mirror at the face of a man at the bar … |
| 6 | In doing so we felt that casual passers-by , looking in the window at the menu , would be more likely to come in knowing what price they would have to pay . |
| 7 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 8 | I say , and laugh , sitting back and looking round the room at the bare paint walls and the constable sitting by the door . |
| 9 | They smoked in silence for a while , looking over the gate at the well-kept buildings which formed the nucleus of the site . |
| 10 | Standing on the south bank and looking across the river at the village , one can see that it is still well-wooded with only the church spire and a small number of houses visible through the trees . |
| 11 | Nobody was looking at the thicket at the moment the wounded cow broke cover . |
| 12 | Erm I was n't quite certain of the wife 's P H I there was something about twelve months and she was getting a hundred and thirty pounds er I , I lost it because I was looking at the clock at the same , I must confess but erm |
| 13 | He was looking at the board at the end of Philip 's bed that had his swimming certificates pinned to it . |
| 14 | Looking around the table at the other men , Michael pointed at Tommy . |
| 15 | On arrival in a strange city , if you are alone , if your friends fail to meet you , if you wish the address of a reliable hotel or boarding house , look for the woman at the station wearing the Travellers ' Aid badge . |
| 16 | You look through the crack at the door hinge . |
| 17 | Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear . |
| 18 | I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office . |
| 19 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 20 | His tendency to look after the moment at the expense of the momentum can be a hindrance ; his thoroughness occasionally leans towards fussiness — and Janáček can sound too beautiful . |
| 21 | Adjust the height of the fitting so that it does n't obscure your view across the table while you 're eating , but is n't so high that you can look into the shade at the bulb . |
| 22 | Look in the churchyard at the south east corner of the church and you will find a poignant tombstone , grave of Cook 's mother , brothers and sisters . |
| 23 | now Mr look at the wording at the top , service , apartment costs , well that means the cost of running the apartment does n't it ? , apartment costs |
| 24 | Right now erm look at the dialogue at the bottom of page fifty on the right hand side bottom right page fifty okay ? |
| 25 | The intro is only okay but has a little twist : the longer you look at the scroller at the bottom of your screen , the weirder it gets . |
| 26 | I 've got an appointment with — ’ he paused to look at the name at the foot of the letter which had been included in his holdall at the station ‘ -K . |
| 27 | So she waited , pacing about her room and going to the window every other minute to look across the harbour at the carrack which lay at anchor a cable or so from the town landing stage . |
| 28 | in the way it has done , and furthermore , every year there 's a survey taken in this country , where we look across the country at the public service and we ask people in the community what they think of their public services . |
| 29 | With my fingers on the handle I looked through the glass at the new world beneath me . |
| 30 | Mrs Rosalia Alderley looked about the library at the gleaming , polished wood , the dust-free shelves and the shining leather bindings on the many volumes stacked upon them , and brought her gaze back to Theda 's face . |