Example sentences of "[noun] to look [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 On the way back we stopped at Horstead Keynes to look at the Carriage and Wagon Dept .
2 He had his top brass coming in from Washington to look at the operation and the first thing they 'd see at Filanta Court was this 30-foot PLO radio mast .
3 It characterises movers and movements to look at the propensity and timing of moves in relation to some of the social and demographic factors underlying geographic movement .
4 She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was .
5 Oliver wondered why the old man lived in such an old , dirty place , when he had so many watches , but then he thought that it must cost Fagin a lot of money to look after the Dodger and the other boys .
6 They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches .
7 Normally , you will have an opportunity to look over the machine and to sit in the cockpit beforehand to think about all the knobs and levers .
8 For cheaper up-and-coming areas , she advises buyers to look around the Bastille and Le Valois Perret , where prices work out at £20-£40 a square metre — about £100,000 for a typical two-bedroom flat .
9 It 's a difficult job to look at the legislation and see a way through it for organisations dealing with homelessness — there is no way through it .
10 ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’
11 Sickened by the endemic one-upmanship of a political system founded on resistance nomenklatura ( Pompidou was one of the few politicians who had not been in the resistance ) , he spoke of the need to look to the future and forget the time when ‘ Frenchmen did not love one another . ’
12 Mae Brown , an educational psychologist , liaises with the SSD to look at the assessment and treatment of children who have been sexually abused .
13 She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up
14 ‘ Britain was the first to pay farmers to look after the land and care for the countryside , while cutting back on production .
15 I have asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to look into the matter and to contact the hon. Gentleman .
16 In the rush for funds or to exploit the fusion fanaticism , few had the time or inclination to look beyond the surface and see the shaky foundations beneath .
17 In 1984 the Industry and Employment Committee commissioned a report , by G Easton and R Wensley to look at the quality and quantity of research in marketing in the UK .
18 They left Margot to look after the children and set off in the car , heading for Gallanach .
19 If the offeror is a subsidiary , or a company controlled by a consortium , the offeror should normally expect the Panel to look through the corporation and require disclosure of the ultimate holding company or members of the consortium .
20 Given the poor publicity generated by the Soviet Union 's agricultural failings , it comes as something of a surprise to look at the statistics and see that the Soviet Union is still the world 's largest wheat producer , greater than the European Community ( which also made agricultural self-sufficiency a goal in its early years ) by about 10 million tons in 1989 , outstripping the United States and Canada , the world 's ‘ breadbasket ’ , by almost the same amount .
21 We left the older ones to look after the farm and we took the horses .
22 There is no contentious issue between the parties as to the suitability of the mother to look after the children or as to the suitability of the father to have contact with them .
23 He resisted the temptation to look under the rug and see how his prisoner was getting on .
24 However , to build on the past achievements of chemistry , it is now time to look at the material and constructional requirements of biosensors .
25 I think we 're now in the third phase , where women are expected to have a job , but at the same time to look after the family and keep themselves alluring to men .
26 While she refused to dance in public , her brother and staff took turns to look through the keyhole and watch her as she worked-out in her black leotard .
27 We engaged a solicitor to look into the matter and he became convinced that there was I wo n't say a loophole , that there was a reason why this should not be done and er requested the Committee of Management to Court for advice .
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