Example sentences of "[conj] look [prep] it " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 2 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 3 | I I think erm , that it can be looked at to , without H R T or looking at it medically , because lots of the women at Dean Terrace , in fact have |
| 4 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 5 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
| 6 | The 1981 , EEC Labour Force Survey showed that Afro-Caribbean women were most economically active ( i.e. in paid employment or looking for it ) at 67.6 per cent , followed by 48.1 per cent among women of Indian origin , by white women at 47.2 per cent , and 15.5 per cent among women of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin . |
| 7 | e.g. by opening or looking over it . |
| 8 | It now has such favourable associations of secure wage-earning that we hardly bother to question it or look behind it . |
| 9 | When the young mallee fowl emerges , there are no parents around to feed or look after it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Or to look at it another way — we are little men , we do n't know the ins and outs of the matter , there are wheels within wheels , etcetera — it wold be presumptuous of us to interfere with the designs of fate or even of kings . |
| 12 | Or to look at it in another way , if all the defaulters in community charge payments were paying their due amount , perhaps these closures would not be necessary . |
| 13 | Mira , it seems , is walking in the landscape rather than looking at it from a height : |
| 14 | It is easier to divide up s.22 than to look at it all at once . |
| 15 | It is so clear that to look into it takes your breath away : there is no sense of depth and the rocks could be two or twenty metres away . |
| 16 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 17 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 18 | He puts his glasses on and looks at it . |
| 19 | Abberley takes off his watch and looks at it . |
| 20 | She turns it upside down and looks at it again . |
| 21 | the player takes the first card and looks at it , if it is a question card ask the next player , one of the two questions |
| 22 | I think that 's an extremely good point actually , because of course , when one thinks about it and looks at it , there are many many things which are happening in today 's world which are disasters . |
| 23 | Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years . |
| 24 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 25 | ROS pauses by the umbrella and looks behind it . ) |
| 26 | In addition I explained to her that , having found the original event and looked at it through adult eyes , there was no danger that she would put an end to one problem only to replace it with another , as might have happened if we had not investigated its origins . |
| 27 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 28 | The Ministry , the Veterinary Products Committee is now going away and they 're going to do even , even more work on it , erm , so I honestly do n't think that , that we 're going to get much more out of the Ministry until Veterinary Products Committee have come back and looked at it yet again , because the , the answer that you 'll get is that they 're already looking at that side of it . |
| 29 | Every half-minute or so , he peered over at the Loran navigation indicator — as if looking at it would make the numbers showing their position change more rapidly — then glanced up at the sky as if there was something to be divined in the matted darkness that could warn him of approaching doom . |
| 30 | In her mind there was a set of events which includes reading about a work of art and looking at it . |