Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] look [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures .
2 Sanchez uncrossed his legs and looked towards the pit .
3 I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room .
4 ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’
5 Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath .
6 Wishart narrowed his eyes and looked into the candlelight .
7 Martin screwed up his eyes and looked towards the hills , saying , ‘ How can you tell from here ? ’
8 In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight .
9 And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children .
10 He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air .
11 With the development of machinery , the mass produced object intended to disguise its origins and look like the product of hand labour has become well established .
12 They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence .
13 Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis .
14 I suggest that we proceed along those lines and look for the most economic way to alleviate my constituents ' problems while not doing too much damage to my hon. Friend 's constituents .
15 After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn .
16 Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking .
17 It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics .
18 It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and Informatics .
19 All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects .
20 She moved away a little , patting her petticoats and looking at the dog .
21 We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed .
22 She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future …
23 She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects .
24 They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority .
25 The information which is available highlights the importance of disaggregating household-based data on incomes and expenditure patterns and looking at the consequences for the individuals within those households .
26 In this experiment , only Group M is learning on Day 2 , whilst Group N is repeating similar but already learned behaviour to that of Group M. Immediately after the trial on Day 2 we took the birds and looked for the expression of one of the immediate early genes , c-jun .
27 There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) .
28 I am still willing to negotiate and talk to the organisations and look at the sport .
29 Well looking at it carefully , as I have done , it 's surprising that if you take the whole of the last forty years and look across the world there are really only about eight major what you can call disasters — I call the calamities , because they are not really disasters — that have occurred with medicines .
30 The last four articles ( 17–20 ) deal with teachers as individuals and look at the forces and pressures on them .
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