Example sentences of "to look [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can be worthwhile to look through trade magazines and check on various companies ' success in placing their songs with artists . |
| 2 | We told her to climb trees , to look for honey . |
| 3 | And they know and we know where to look for help in finding it . |
| 4 | Do n't know where to look for help |
| 5 | Christie , so adept at getting the aid of Administration for his own business , knew exactly where to look for help , and approached Lord Ilay through his deputy , Lord Milton , and without any attempt to bargain simply asked for an appointment for his son , promising that it would ‘ forever laye me under the deepest obligationes ’ . |
| 6 | So in the future we also have a lot to give to the rest of the world rather than just to look for help . |
| 7 | But the settlers who had come to America to look for land did not like the proprietors ' form of ownership . |
| 8 | Some of the sailors and I managed to get a boat into the water , and we rowed away to look for land . |
| 9 | Opening her purse to look for change , she crossed the road to the phone box . |
| 10 | He says they wo n't have to look for change . |
| 11 | The company continues to look for expansion opportunities , especially in Great Yarmouth , where the scale of production support operations enhances the benefits of resource sharing , an area in which the company has a proven record . |
| 12 | He had gone to look for wood . |
| 13 | He had gone in to look for adventure , but had found love , he told Lord Henry . |
| 14 | ‘ I went in to look for adventure , but I found love , ’ Dorian told Lord Henry . |
| 15 | The purpose of these tests is to look for overstatement or understatement and to examine the quality of management decisions which fall outside the scope of the systems in place for a contract . |
| 16 | If we really wanted to find out whether the unwesternised Wolof were capable of expressing different points of view , we could do worse than to look for instance at their political activities and see whether , in factional disputes , the lobbying that takes place indicates such an awareness . |
| 17 | They have caused fear and suspicion and encouraged people to look for abuse where there is none , or to dress up actual sexual abuse of children with ‘ satanic ’ imputations . |
| 18 | The papacy 's moral powers enabled it to look for money throughout the western world . |
| 19 | Begin to look for route to his home in A-Z . |
| 20 | If the adventurers specifically state that they want to look for spell ingredients , or if a spellcaster makes an Int test without specifically stating this intention , they can find the following : a fire opal ( Resist Fire ) , a crystal prism ( Destroy Illusions ) , an 8-inch diameter golden hoop ( Vanish , but the hoop is red gold , so the spell will cost 9 MPs rather than 6 ) , a magnifying glass ( Banish Illusion ) , and a polished silver mirror ( Camouflage Illusion ) . |
| 21 | We can then begin to look for stress reducing and coping strategies to help alleviate the difficulties experienced in the everyday work situation . |
| 22 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 23 | This study involves asking subjects to perform the dot location task and another task accessing the right hemisphere simultaneously to look for reduction in left field advantage for the dot location task a result . |
| 24 | I certainly had n't told him where to look for arrow wood . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that in the years 1877–1904 70 per cent of Pomeranian farmland was held in large estates and only 30 per cent in peasant smallholdings of various kinds : about two-thirds of Pomeranian farmers were smallholders living in the most appalling poverty ; their assets were non-existent or too small for them to think of trekking westwards to look for factory work ; they were too poor to pay cash for their land , and too impoverished for any bank to risk giving them a loan . |
| 26 | Students of linguistics are taught early on about the importance of binary oppositions like this one , and are encouraged to look for two-term contrasts , x and not-x , in the linguistic data they analyse . |
| 27 | The Peace of Paris left France and Spain ready to look for revenge , and Britain 's hasty departure from the war left Frederick feeling betrayed , so that Britain was quite likely to be involved in another war soon , and a war for which it would be hard to find allies . |
| 28 | In the changing conceptual frame inside which a science progresses , it would be as out of place to look for progress as in the styles of an art . |
| 29 | As they set off across their territory in the darkness to look for prey , they leave pungent signposts . |
| 30 | Mr Boesky is free to leave the centre during the day to look for work or meet his lawyers , but has to report back by 6pm . |