Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | was the defendants solicitors , the parties during nineteen ninety one , the two solicitors , had dealt with the question of costs and er perfectly normal way , the plaintiffs have their costs , drafted by er cost draughtsman , I understand that in-house draughtsman and erm they produced to Mr a bill for costs , er Mr looked at the bill and met counter proposals and he suggested other figures , erm , figures in the region of forty two thousand pounds , forty seven and fifty thousand pounds for the plaintiffs costs , the correspondence indicates that Mr then , now put forward what with respect seems to be entirely sensible suggestion that er really it would not be sensible to proceed with having the cost taxed , he said he did n't foresee any real difficulty in getting them to agree the costs and that er the common sense thing in the interest of all parties was to see if they could reach an overall , settlement er determining all the matters in dispute , effectively this would be what was to be done in respect of the surgery premises , there was I think , there is reference in accounted to another sec another premises as well which apparently were lease , er but are now formed part of the negotiations and er negotiations continued between the parties during nineteen ninety two , by the end of nineteen ninety two the negotiations were beginning to run into difficulties , the plaintiffs were beginning to put forward non negotiable final offers and er the result unfortunately was that in apparently nineteen ninety three the er negotiations into that broke down . |
| 2 | Er we have looked to supplement national e information by our local knowledge specifically I might instance one er where we have made a survey of the institutions which is one source of er possible difference between er people looking at the situation locally and those from further afield . |
| 3 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
| 4 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 5 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 6 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 7 | The McGuire et al 's study looked at the medication regimen of a group of patients on admission and on discharge . |
| 8 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 9 | An integral part of Labour 's plan to look after the coal industry will be the adoption of European proposals for the coal industry . |
| 10 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 11 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 12 | It is interesting for today 's connoisseur to look at the cellar list of the Dolls ' House and ruminate on the joys of opening a bottle or two . |
| 13 | Police said today 's bombing looked like the work of the IRA although no admission had yet been received . |
| 14 | Ulster 's Protestants look upon the RUC 's changing role as a form of betrayal , a shocking revelation that it is not , after all , a ‘ Protestant force ’ dedicated to Loyalism . |
| 15 | He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 16 | They were a display of one family 's ability to look after the treasure of another family , treasure as represented by one carefully protected , carefully prepared girl . |
| 17 | Racing 's bosses looked into the circumstances of the horse 's 33-1 triumph and found that no rules had been broken . |
| 18 | Much later , after the funeral , Billy 's mother looked for the letter that Auntie had written to the pension people . |
| 19 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 20 | In other words , where yesterday 's historian looked for the history of an oppressed working class , today 's historian looks for marginalized groups , and those who have transgressed social norms . |
| 21 | certain sort of listening skills and er erm the , the idea that you , you 've got to get erm people to look at the things maybe they do n't want to look at |
| 22 | Mrs Jones ' mother looks after the children in the afternoon . |