Example sentences of "to look [prep] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just going to look through it to find out what was happening in the passage when I saw a fishy eye fixed in the centre . |
| 2 | ‘ Would you like me just to look through it all ? ’ she offered . |
| 3 | When I got my telescope to look through it was gone . |
| 4 | Essex News , I really have n't had time to look through it erm , but there 's rather a nice little bit which I must read . |
| 5 | At a particularly exciting point I dropped it between the seats in front , and insisted that my parents ask the people to look for it . |
| 6 | There has been an advantage in looking first at an exercise because its very ‘ task ’ orientation often makes the structure explicit , whereas in group drama one has often to look for it . |
| 7 | ‘ When he came out they said he 'd lost his mind so he went off to look for it and has n't been seen since . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ My mother went to look for it later but it had gone . ’ |
| 9 | We have to look for it . |
| 10 | Yet the evidence is there if we care to look for it . |
| 11 | Far better , it seemed to me , was the simple strategy of waiting for nature to come to you , rather than going clumsily to look for it . |
| 12 | I eventually assumed that , by now , someone else must have written the animal version of Manwatching and recently I went to look for it . |
| 13 | He had gone down to the stable earlier and seen that it was missing , so he went to look for it . |
| 14 | They all come in to look for it . |
| 15 | As a citizen she was concerned that all too often social workers got an idea in their minds that ritual abuse was taking place , and then set out to look for it , The after-effects , though , were critical , according to Helen Martini . |
| 16 | Therein lies a lot of its appeal , if only you could be bothered to look for it . |
| 17 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 18 | Steep routes , close to the road , sunshine , pleasant surroundings and generally good quality rock ; plus there 's a bit of adventure away from the crowds for those prepared to look for it . |
| 19 | He had known where to look for it when he 'd left the bell tower after finding her corpse . |
| 20 | This is especially noticeable ( now you know to look for it ! ) when multiplying two polynomials in the usual manner . |
| 21 | It is of course very difficult for the eye to register detail when it is not trained to look for it ; it is only when true students of the Gothic , like the elder Pugin , begin to distinguish the styles of different periods , that the buildings of the past really come into focus in the novel . |
| 22 | Before leaving I looked around at the disorder wondering what was so important that somebody would go to so much trouble to look for it . |
| 23 | " She 's a dirty old faggot , but she 's got a good heart when you know where to look for it . " |
| 24 | ‘ I remember a number that I think might interest you , ’ he said encouragingly , starting at the beginning of the book and going down the columns to look for it . |
| 25 | There 's some very reasonable golf and fishing , though , if you know where to look for it . |
| 26 | Look , she 's gone to look for it . |
| 27 | Did she dare go back to look for it ? |
| 28 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 29 | He went to look for it , remembering that he had used it a couple of times since October , trying to take the plugs out of the estate car . |
| 30 | Then she followed her father back towards the flock , where the sheep at the rear , desperate at the sight of hay ahead and too stupid to look for it from any source except the one they all sought , were scrambling on to each other 's backs in panic . |