Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father |
| 2 | I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures . |
| 3 | There 's j I looked in the phone book , there is only |
| 4 | I also wondered — I was only seven — if the fire had anything to do with Alf Norris and I looking into the boiler room the day before ! |
| 5 | When I look towards the Merchiston Castle here , I wonder what John Napier who lived here from 1550 to 1627 would have said could he see us today . |
| 6 | I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed . |
| 7 | I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office . |
| 8 | I look through the blinds . |
| 9 | I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door . |
| 10 | Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear . |
| 11 | The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend . |
| 12 | I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’ |
| 13 | Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open . |
| 14 | Some snatch of verse from a Jacobean tragedy flashed through his mind : ‘ When I look into the fishponds in my garden , methinks I see a thing , armed with a rake , that seems to strike at me . ’ |
| 15 | Could you carry on here while I look into the shipping side of things ? " |
| 16 | As a member in business , I look on the Institute 's failure to address the problem of conflicts between the two roles with concern . |
| 17 | DENNING L.J. : I look on the father 's letter as dealing with two things . |
| 18 | Sometimes this was stated explicitly , as by a physiotherapist : ‘ I look on the disability as being the overall diagnosis … to me the children have got a disability , i.e. spina bifida , cerebral palsy , to me that 's the disability . |
| 19 | I look to the TV , the video recorder . |
| 20 | I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties . |
| 21 | ‘ At present I look to the judiciary for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence and to the Parole Board for advice on risk . |
| 22 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 23 | But suppose I look at a clock on the ground floor — through binoculars , say . |
| 24 | I look at a person and if you like me you like me |
| 25 | When I look at a picture of a naked man , I can think like Richard Dyer : ‘ I 'd like to feel that man and I 'd like to be that man . ’ |
| 26 | I look at a garden before me as if I am a camera that can throw reality out of focus and can twist and contort and blur . |
| 27 | I look at a photograph of my father still in uniform , taken at Loch Lomond before he was demobbed , as he stands smiling between his younger brother and the English friend he had met in an Italian POW camp . |
| 28 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 29 | When I look at a Picasso which is using a lot of colours and I look at something else , for some reason I know that Picasso is using colour well , and the other person is n't . |
| 30 | So if I have associated the right word — say , the word blue — with the right impression — the impression I get when I look at a cornflower — there is no fear of my language not mirroring reality as there is if I talk about fate or fortune , these not being words for simple ideas impressed on my mind by external objects . |