Example sentences of "[pers pn] look into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | Could you carry on here while I look into the shipping side of things ? " |
| 6 | Images , when I looked into the water . ’ |
| 7 | I looked into the water and saw a Black Swan from the Park . |
| 8 | I wanted men , yet I looked into the faces and with hatred . |
| 9 | Miss Elizabeth Brown , whose flat overlooks the alley where the dogs were eventually cornered and shot , said : ‘ I looked into the alleyway and saw the dogs going mad . |
| 10 | My own first research experience using biographical data was when I was studying the history of housing management in Britain and , inevitably , I looked into the work and times of the great nineteenth-century housing management pioneer , Octavia Hill . |
| 11 | When I looked into the future and saw a life shared with Ellen in a house in the country , dogs , kids , mowing the lawn , I panicked . |
| 12 | ( The RSV seems clear enough when it speaks of them looking into the ark ( 6.19 ) , but the Hebrew will not really bear that sense , and would suggest they merely looked at it . |
| 13 | Now he has written to builders , architects , surveyors and other organisations asking them to look into the problem . |
| 14 | ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible . |
| 15 | Did you look into the room ? |
| 16 | Please could you look into the matter and see what can be done to make the lights visible again . |
| 17 | Please would you look into the matter and see what can be done to improve the situation . |
| 18 | Please could you look into the matter with a view to re-positioning the lines if you consider it necessary . |
| 19 | whereas the white line is But if you look into the headlights it can be not dark erm but it appears to be dark because |
| 20 | Er in my opinion at this particular time we must bear in mind the financial constraints that we work under and er would the board agree with me that erm survival comes first yes but it 's obvious that the programme that we 've er had put forward is a good compromise between preferred in the arts , maintaining the theatre as a viable proposition and er entertaining the people of this particular part of the world because as I understand it this theatre was not just the artist also an entertainment centre and it 's in this area that er it 's quite obvious when you look into the figures on this area the popular area that the majority income comes so you 'll have to make a compromise and I will congratulate the board on what I think is pretty reasonable compromise so it 's quite obvious in the programme . |
| 21 | If you look into the calculations you 'll find they are specifically excluded . |
| 22 | The fireplace was the centre of a living room where you looked into the flames and you relaxed in front of them and saw images . |
| 23 | ‘ But when you looked into the wings you did know . |
| 24 | She looked into the mirror , moving her hips in time to some silent music in her head , letting the silky skirt swish enticingly around her legs — And saw another stranger looking back at her , eyes and mouth dreaming and vulnerable . |
| 25 | She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone . |
| 26 | But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection . |
| 27 | Clare was about to decline , when she looked into the girls timid , pleading eyes , and realized with surprise that the invitation was genuine — that she was to represent , however inadequately , their reception ’ . |
| 28 | She looked into the girl 's unreadable grey eyes , appreciating the fineness of her face . |
| 29 | She looked into the forest to see if the rest of the Women were close enough to catch her , if she could evade these few … |
| 30 | She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it . |