Example sentences of "[modal v] look in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christ if you think I 'm an egotist you should look in the mirror baby . |
| 2 | She grabbed the wrap and hugged it round her , agonisingly aware of the swollen-eyed wreck she must look in the brightness . |
| 3 | The sign in the utterance , therefore , does not function as a symbol but as an index : it indicates where we must look in the world we know or can perceive in order to discover meaning . |
| 4 | But I 'll look in the Smoking Room . |
| 5 | But they had one in the corner you see and I could see the back leg was gone said to Margaret an said I might as well do something of that , you know , to do up it 's the only one that they had there that wanted really wanted repairing , so the feller said ooh I do n't know he said hang on , I 'll look in the book . |
| 6 | ‘ I just wondered if you could look in the library for me ’ , she explained . |
| 7 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 8 | Right if you have n't if you ca n't find the dictionary you could look in the paper see what time Neighbours is on . |
| 9 | You could look in the drawers now . |
| 10 | I used to look in the mirror and cry . |
| 11 | It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's . |
| 12 | If the hon. Lady were sensible , she would look in the backyard of her own party . |
| 13 | He would look in the summer-house before coming in by the back door but he seldom found me there now . |
| 14 | While Maghery will look in the main to the Robinson brothers , they can also bank on the experience supplied by Martin Toye . |
| 15 | Lotus has re-thought the spreadsheet and is showing us how this type of application will look in the future . |
| 16 | oh , well I erm , I did do a few but I 've used most of mine up I think , I can look in the freezer to see if there 's any there , but I do n't think there is |
| 17 | Anorexia , where self-image and reality can be so at odds that a girl can look in the mirror and see someone hugely fat when in fact she is skeletal , is growing amongst teenage girls , and beginning to affect more Black and Asian girls living in Britain . |
| 18 | No , you can look in the catalogue you do n't need to go in there . |
| 19 | You can look in the book . |
| 20 | Well I mean you can look in the fridge but do n't look to see what 's near the bottom . |