Example sentences of "[adv] to look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought both of the Lorrimores to their feet in an incredulous rush , but they had only to look at the faces crowding behind her to know it was true . |
| 2 | One has only to look at the contradictions between the rich north and the starving south ; between capitalist industry 's ceaseless drive for higher productivity and the health of the biosphere ; those contradictions at the heart of the EC ( the ERM , the battles over farming and fishing , etc ) ; and the fierce struggle over world trade in GATT , which will soon break out again . |
| 3 | Went in to look for the seeds so I m I might have changed , just gone , I du n no . |
| 4 | Just before she turned the sign on the door round to read ‘ Closed ’ , a woman came in to look at the toys . |
| 5 | A small team of business experts have been gathered together to look at the ways new markets and business prospects can be fully exploited . |
| 6 | If Liz and Owen had n't had that accident , which brought us together to look after the twins , we might never have found each other again ! ’ she cried , feeling almost faint as she fell back on the pillows , hardly able to bear the thought of how narrowly they had averted a lifetime of unhappiness . |
| 7 | Well , you would n't think so to look at the photographs , would you . |
| 8 | Then I hurried down to look at the ruins I had seen earlier , before the next onslaught of rough weather could begin . |
| 9 | With a parting gift of prawns and fish from a friendly fisherman , we headed over to look at the islands of bum and Eigg on the way to Ardnamurchan . |
| 10 | ‘ The other day Thomas and I went over to look at the foundations of the first villa which your men have started to build , ’ she remarked , as they drank their coffee . |
| 11 | I called out : ‘ I 'm going over to look at the birds , ’ and left them to it . |
| 12 | He bent from his great height to take her right hand into his own large one , turned it over to look at the scars and callouses hard manual labour had inflicted on its once pink and white delicacy . |
| 13 | He tried not to look at the screens . |
| 14 | Then I wandered outside to look at the wreaths and the Salvation Army Captain touched me on the shoulder . |
| 15 | It then goes on to look at the costs of protectionism so they 're , they 're looking at erm , the numerical estimates as to how much erm , protectionism costs , not only for domestic producers and consumers and tax payers , but also for third countries . |
| 16 | He checked the bathroom and kitchen and only then stood up to look through the windows to be certain that no one had made a run for the trees . |
| 17 | Erm that erm about erm me father coming down from the top of the ah ah well , this was January the thirty first , nineteen hundred and sixteen and er me father had been up to look after the horses , pigs etc you know , and about eight o'clock he came back and said to my mother that there was a big fire out at Wensbury Me mother and all of us went up there , and er we could see these blazing buildings over there , and er mother immediately said that 's no fire , that 's the Zeppelin 's , and er that 's what it turned out to be , of course . |
| 18 | It is time now to look at the sections of financial theory which are relevant for the valuation of securities . |
| 19 | But then we were big enough now to look after the kids for her while she went . |
| 20 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 21 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 22 | Cardiff spun back to look at the windows to see if that bizarre shifting and swirling of shadows was somehow caused by a lightning flash through the glass panes . |
| 23 | A wedge of frosty light clove a farmyard as someone stepped out to look at the stars in the russet sky . |
| 24 | On a fine spring morning the three grandsons got up early and went out to look at the bee-hives which they kept in the forest . |
| 25 | Dave 's verdict : lightweight travellers , cyclists and mountain marathoners would do well to look at the advantages this flexible combination system offers . |
| 26 | There is not enough room here to look at the differences of nuance within this approach , which analyses the crisis of the uniform legal system and the monolithic concept of the state . |
| 27 | Gradually the people realized that we was here to look after the flats . |
| 28 | People stared at the car , and we tried hard to look like the owners , not just the delivery team . |
| 29 | To seek help and/or advice : " I 've inherited a circus and I 've no idea how to look after the animals . " |
| 30 | The drama 's about how to look after the animals , finding out what they eat , where they come from , maybe whether we can release them back into the wild . |