Example sentences of "[vb pp] look at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he left the café he realised that he had forgotten to look at Elsie 's feet . |
| 2 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 3 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 4 | As these lectures are concerned with the role of religion I have decided to look at Marxism in terms of two triads — one of commitment and the other of outcome . |
| 5 | An attempt will also be made to look at changes in the years since the last war in order to establish long-term trends , if any . |
| 6 | The woman , from Heywood , near Rochdale , had stopped to look at directions in Farnworth near Manchester when the man struck at 5.40am on Saturday . |
| 7 | The waiter , when he came , archly avoided looking at Masha . |
| 8 | After playing it I came to the conclusion that it was one of the biggest pile of dog 's droppings I have had to look at while researching this feature . |
| 9 | Officials of the inquiry and MPs immediately called for the extradition of Klebeck to be considered and for the inquiry to be reconstituted to look at wartime crimes in the Channel Islands . |
| 10 | Consultants Coopers and Lybrand Associates and SETEC Economique were commissioned to look at ways of identifying and measuring Community interest , and used the Channel fixed link as one of their main case studies . |
| 11 | You 've only got to look at Wimbledon . |
| 12 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’ |
| 14 | Well you 've only got to look at adverts in the ruddy paper for |
| 15 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 16 | ‘ But we 've got to look at ways of helping Graham Taylor . |
| 17 | She said local library and the local library could be run by the regional council , it could be run by the district council because although you work part-time you 've got to look at pension if you 've got other income er to use the revenue maximum . |
| 18 | Well you 've just got to look at section twenty eight , now section twenty five , how like we are being discriminated against how even like |
| 19 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 20 | At the local authority level Dorset County Council ( 1980 ) , in a booklet called Looking at Schools , talks of a joint-evaluation , which amounts to an inspection with the school agreeing to the report , but having no control over the process of the inspection . |
| 21 | Ministers were invited to look at ways in which they could help people in responding to or coping with grief . |
| 22 | Dr Mortimer was called to look at Sir Charles ' body . |
| 23 | My life is now largely spent looking at places , observing the actions of other people and spotting birds and wildlife . |
| 24 | He 's currently developing a play about Lawrence 's experiences in the First World War and he 's been asked to look at Lawrence 's novel Kangaroo , by the BBC . |
| 25 | But the ways in which we have been asked to look at consumer credit use are hardly relevant to TV rental . |
| 26 | Professional models are trained to look at ease and to be able to produce spontaneous-looking smiles and expressions to order . |
| 27 | The central point of the book is a reflection of a non-technical ‘ wider ecumenism ’ , ‘ a juxtapositioning of mental shapes or ideas through which the poet had learned to look at life , his own and that reflected by others . ’ |
| 28 | They had already started to look at houses — not any close inspection , just murmured approval as they had been driving , Glyn 's comments warming her . |
| 29 | Journalists who may be minded to look at court or police records should bear in mind that an official persuaded to show them a spent conviction is liable to a fine , and if they make their persuasion more persuasive by a bribe , or obtain access to the record dishonestly , they themselves are liable to imprisonment for up to six months . |
| 30 | Stephen Gamble , aged twenty-seven , a glass-house foreman at Oxford University Botanic Garden , is travelling to the USA to study educational and interpretive techniques at gardens and botanical collections on the Eastern Seaboard ; Fergus McCormick , a 28 year-old architect , will visit East Germany and Poland to examine the practical philosophy behind the restoration and reconstruction of historic buildings in the aftermath of the Second World War ; and Peter Sturgess , aged twenty-three , a postgraduate student at Liverpool University , has chosen to look at management , educational and interpretive techniques in parts of the Algarve . |