Example sentences of "[noun] look [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then we reached the gate , and I saw a gentleman on a horse looking over it . |
| 2 | Leonard spent hours walking and cycling around the neighbourhood looking for it . |
| 3 | Neil can I ask you have n't have got on my eyes looking for it , but I ca n't see any reference at all in your report to local authority engineering craftsmen . |
| 4 | Er the b the more you do in cash really , the more the tax inspectors look at it . |
| 5 | The nomes craned and tried to climb on one another 's shoulders to look at it , and none of them knew what it was except for Grimma , who was staring at it with a strange quiet smile on her face . |
| 6 | It vanished for a while , but then shone brightly at them as the car reached the top of the small hill and again they shielded their eyes to look at it like actors on a stage . |
| 7 | And often we would lie together in the sun after a bathe , and kiss and caress each other , and it was a dear , familiar pleasure , associated in my mind and body with safety and mutual delight and no demands made ; his hands were wondering and tender , and his face when I opened my eyes to look at it had the extraordinary beauty it used to have when I had given him even this limited sensual happiness . |
| 8 | ‘ I got my girlfriend to look at it . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend has raised an interesting thought ; perhaps I should ask the Department to look into it . |
| 10 | Ivan looked at it and did n't speak . |
| 11 | Dot looked at it and was surprised to see how dirty it had become . |
| 12 | Malpass looked at it and offered me a cigarette and then a light . |
| 13 | no where erm the multiple concern who looked after that business , where their national account department looked after that corporate we would look after it and where their key account department looked after it you would look after it and is a national account for for erm |
| 14 | Bernice looked at it . |
| 15 | Scott looked at it . |
| 16 | to collect the card but did Ms Sutton gracefully rise from her seat to hand it to her , no , she tossed it over the rim of the platform onto the floor below leaving the poor woman to scrabble around for several minutes looking for it and the , and the punch line is a little later an embarrassed Ms Sutton is contesting Cambridgeshire South West for the Lib Dems at the general election , apologised for her cavalier behaviour , let us hope she learnt from the experience yeah |
| 17 | Except keep driving round Wokingham looking for it . |
| 18 | Too much worry and hard work looking after it . |
| 19 | Delaney stood for a second looking after it . |
| 20 | ‘ All we are asking for , ’ he said , ‘ is for the council to look at it and vote on it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I remember a number that I think might interest you , ’ he said encouragingly , starting at the beginning of the book and going down the columns to look for it . |
| 22 | The second reason was that Palmerston had gone further than that by insisting on the appointment of an architect who had not even entered the competition , and the third reason was that the whole affair was so tangled when he took office that he appointed a Select Committee to look into it . |
| 23 | Catherine and Davidson were left in his office to carry on the conversation , and while Davidson was finding her some more coffee , Catherine turned the photograph on John McLeish 's desk to look at it . |
| 24 | erm only the Emir , and he has to give very erm strict reasons for it and he sends it back to the parliament to look into it again and when it comes back the second time the Emir can pass it . |
| 25 | He stopped , and Allen could see that he was undoing the neck of the sack to look into it . |
| 26 | If the patient 's fever took several days to appear then it is much less likely to be Belladonna no matter how much the rest of the picture looks like it . |
| 27 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 28 | To those observers looking on it seemed hard to believe that the average IQ of the room 's inhabitants was 149 , and that they had more honours between them than a collection of top class civil servants — and to think that they had been reduced to such a pitiful state as this . |
| 29 | there was one bloke over in erm tha you know , with a man la , that I used to work with and he , he used to fly from Hollies , and he lost his plane one day and fle , flew out of range and er he he spent weeks looking for it ! |
| 30 | Raynor came to a stop outside a thick , low door set into the wall , and stood for a moment looking at it , as if summoning up some inner resolve . |