Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] look [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Once I was inside and looking at the space I had and the needs I had identified , I saw my task differently from the people who had come out of production , many of whom , whether men or women , continued to want to master/ mistressmind productions themselves as Executive Producer .
2 He rolled over , and spread his loosened limbs in the bed , he opened windows , he went to the Tate Gallery alone and looked at the dissolving blue and gold air of Turner 's Norham Castle .
3 Are you and sulphur together and looked at the the way in which they combined .
4 If … one prescient soul at your level , say , early in 1982 , … really had thought ministers should be forced to meet on this issue and they kept postponing discussions on the Falklands , could you as Permanent Secretary of Defence have ensured that relevant Cabinet ministers did get together and look at the problem rationally and seriously , in so far as it 's possible , in time ?
5 What we want local communities to do is to get together and look at the situation on the ground , that is to say the council , the police , the magistrates , the brewers , people who run fast food shops , the planners .
6 I do not know what the hon. Gentleman means , but I regret that , as ever — and typically of Labour Members — the hon. Gentleman seems to glory in gloom and despondency in identifying the more negative aspects of things , rather than looking at the positive .
7 Because of the changed security situation and that type of er conflict not being envisaged in the same way now , what we felt was important was to be able to operate er apart from main operating bases , but also from sort of general purpose erm strips , flying clubs and those type of smaller airfields and therefore rather than looking at the damaged runway situation , we looked at the smaller strips and took a length that we could sensibly operate from erm and took that as the yardstick but clearly notwithstanding that , there is the prospect of damaged runways and therefore the slight relaxation would also apply to damaged runways but perhaps damaged to a lesser extent .
8 Rather than looking at the proposal we decided that it was so that 's what we did really and that 's why , if you have a look down there right , so all we 're doing then we 're working through the resources and allocating them room numbers erm and then when that 's done so that 's what we did for each of the little rooms .
9 ‘ She wanted to be doing things like playing on her home computer rather than looking after the rest of the family .
10 Then I went through the samples in my kitchen and realised that , rather than look at the non-mainstream areas , I could look at wines from perfectly accepted areas that broke the usual conventions ; or in one brilliant example , I could see what great traditional winemakers — in this case a pair of Burgundian grandees — could do when they decided to rough it a bit in France 's far south .
11 The idea of confidence runs thus : Rather than look at the probability of getting this precise result , we find the probability of getting a less likely observed result .
12 Anyway that looks like the only tribute problem for this financial year is n't it ?
13 But Malcolm Brodie , who must have been 80 yards away and looking at the player 's back , could say the goal was quite rightly disallowed .
14 He backed away and looked along the front of the house .
15 He took his hand away and looked at the smear of red blood on his fingers .
16 She turned towards Aggie , who had to turn away and look towards the fireplace .
17 He waited till the horses were well away and looked round the wide , flat landscape carefully before unclipping the lead .
18 If the Minister of State wants to see what that is like , she should go into the City tonight and look at the number of people who are sleeping in the cold because there is no accommodation for them .
19 So instead , what I do is just stand outside and look through the window .
20 She turned slowly and looked at the figure in the chair .
21 Then he put his head out slowly and looked up the corridor .
22 The girl laced her fingers together nervously and looked at the floor .
23 She spoke hopefully and looked towards the door like an eager gun dog , ears pricked for the command to retrieve .
24 To understand Homoeopathy we must consider a little more deeply and look at the situation afresh .
25 He put it aside and looked through the others .
26 Quiss said suddenly , sitting upright and looking about the room .
27 It was only when she got home and looked in the hall mirror that she saw the enormous dark red love bite on her neck .
28 On the first morning of their honeymoon , he wakes up early and looks at the lady , still sleeping on the pillow beside him .
29 That 's an area of course that we would wish to increase eventually but looking at the protected figures , a large increase in the primary schools delegated budgets this year could result in , in a de facto cut to the secondary schools next year .
30 It must also not be forgotten that we in Britain , at least , tend to get our latitudes wrong when looking across the Atlantic .
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