Example sentences of "look [prep] it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year .
2 But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction .
3 He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares .
4 But looking at it from the other point , that 's the you know the word entitlement comes from you know , I I think I 'm entitled to twenty days ' training , but whether I need twenty days ' training to be
5 well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round .
6 I seem to remember looking at it in the other one .
7 you 're not looking at it in the same way at all .
8 Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used .
9 It was too close to Christmas to bother about embarking on any sort of adult education before it , so I pacified Toby by saying I 'd got plenty of time and would look into it after the New Year , and we settled down to wallow in being together and getting into the Christmas spirit .
10 Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities .
11 Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres .
12 So perhaps we can have a look there , and this will appear on the ne and , and I suggest we look at it on the next General Purposes Committee .
13 So then from that graph , try and predict before you look at it in the next picture
14 So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other .
15 He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground .
16 Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience .
17 They looked for it inside the white car .
18 You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time .
19 Yes , his looked at it in the last couple of days , so he said within within another week or so he 's having the whole done with them .
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