Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the areas I looked at first was the so-called ancillary services — that is cleaning , catering and laundry . |
| 2 | George , whom I looked for first , was in his office eating a fat ragged beef sandwich and drinking diet Coke . |
| 3 | Can you look in next week and check this out please ? |
| 4 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |
| 5 | Who 's did she look at first ? |
| 6 | Now what were we looking at last time ? |
| 7 | Everything looked at first glance the same . |
| 8 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 9 | Notice how Paul uses open string ideas ( bars 6–7 ) in a way that is very similar to the phrases that we looked at last month . |
| 10 | This shows the technique behind the ringing open string scale fingerings that we looked at last month , but applied to a short musical piece . |
| 11 | Adjustment is not complete , it 's partial alright , so we 're going to say that supply adjusts in the following manner , right , according to the partial adjustment hypothesis alright , so changes in actual supply alright , will be delta of the difference between the desired level of output for T , right and the actual level of input T minus one alright , plus er alright , so that was just our partial adjustment model that we looked at last week , right , we 'll call that equation three okay right . |
| 12 | Erm and people will take on board different methods of being probed , some will respond to audio probes , some will re respond to some visual stimulation er conceptualize er ideas you know the ones we looked at last week like the old PEGGY symbols and erm the cheque book , PHI and life assurance , the ten percent rule and there is one another which we can look at , another mnemonic called er erm some of you may have come across it before , others may not and is hey so Mr Prospect if you had n't made an adequate retirement plan , what financial problems do you think you or family could have ? |
| 13 | This research evidence seems contrary to common sense , but such findings are not as incomprehensible as they look at first sight . |
| 14 | Set against the background of inflation this rise is less impressive than it looks at first sight . |
| 15 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 16 | ‘ The scouts say it looks at first glance as if thousands are leaving . |
| 17 | Even though it looks at first it 's a ridiculous thing to do . |
| 18 | Will he look at last Monday 's Adjournment debate and see that there is another side to the story , before we start , heaven knows , on sanctions that will hurt the 36 British companies in Libya , which are led , by for example , Brown and Root , and which could lead to something worse in the form of another strike ? |
| 19 | ‘ Not as bad as it looked on first assessment . |
| 20 | She was polite about the leeks and lumpy cheese and said a similar thing could be done with endives and it looked at first as if the lunch was going to prove a slightly awkward affair . |
| 21 | It looked at first as if she had been drinking blood . |
| 22 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 23 | The nurse said of course they could use the phone , but they should have themselves looked at first . |
| 24 | Even so , it is possible for a court to interpret a statute as covering what looks at first sight as a casus omissus if it can find or invent some plausible general principle of interpretation , an exercise that may call for a little ingenuity . |
| 25 | ( 10 ) I had myself to look to first of all . |
| 26 | While we 're deciding what to look at next , I ask John what Quo are up to presently … |