Example sentences of "look [adv prt] to [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 2 | But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained . |
| 3 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 4 | We have only to look back to the debates about language across the curriculum to remember the puerile arguments over whose responsibility it was to teach language skills . |
| 5 | And that is , that it seems to look back to the writings of Darwin . |
| 6 | The madrigals , more clumsy and old-fashioned , look back to the models of Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder [ q.v. ] rather than forward to the looser , more expressive style of Thomas Morley [ q.v. ] ; two of them ( xxi and xxii ) borrow musically as well as textually from Ferrabosco 's settings , published by Nicholas Yonge [ q.v. ] in the influential second volume of Musica Transalpina ( 1597 ) . |
| 7 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 8 | But you know erm if , if , if you look back to the days of the Raj erm it was a even within my living memory , erm people were joining the armed services or the overseas er er corp and the civil service overseas I suppose , yeah , er at a , at a fairly humble level and would either work their way up or they drink themselves stupid or they get mixed up with someone or they , you know but it was a , a , a recognized way of , of , of going , you know , either join the services or the |
| 9 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 10 | He looked up to the windows of Rose 's flat . |
| 11 | I looked up to the skies for no reason I can now remember , probably a spot of rain or a ray of sunshine . |