Example sentences of "[modal v] look the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Romanes , the evolutionist , physiologist and early comparative psychologist , declared in 1887 that ‘ we must look the fact in the face … it must take many centuries for heredity to produce the missing five ounces of the female brain ’ . |
| 2 | Clearly the movies now felt that they could look the reformers of the early twentieth century firmly in the eye and the film-industry boosters were now giving back as good as they were given . |
| 3 | Erm , if they start to have an illness and it develops we 'll obviously be talking to their doctor , I mean if it 's apparent that they 're blind on the form , well then , obviously we would looking the amount we paid , or , or , erm , basically come to some agreement on that . |
| 4 | If I remember rightly , you pointed out forcibly that no man would look the side she was on ever again because cheap women had no hope of anything in the future but of being used . |
| 5 | By stabilising that part of the world , we would be making our contribution as a building block to better world monetary arrangements which will be important once the ecu is a means of exchange and a currency that can look the yen and the dollar in the face . |