Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] to look [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone is going to put off a lot of their own money in order to get into parliament , we can , then we can hardly trust them to look to the general interests once they 're there , they 'll want a return on their investment of some sorts . |
| 2 | I called you over because I want you to look after the new lady . |
| 3 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 4 | Erm , I 'll not go through the whole of this table sir , but I do want you to look at the next column , outstanding planning permissions . |
| 5 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 6 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 7 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 8 | ‘ And now it 's a wonderful feeling to know that it has enabled me to look at the top guys knowing there are only a few ahead of me . |
| 9 | If he ca n't find her at home , tell him to look in the public library in the afternoon . |
| 10 | So this then , all o a th these techniques when applied erm er er as an ensemble then all allow you to look at the single channel currents , the currents flowing through any given channel , and as well as the effects of external and internal regulators . |
| 11 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 12 | It would only be possible to describe these years in such glowing terms , however , if we were to place our curiosity under strict curfew , refusing to allow it to look beyond the frozen images of faded snap-shots or the scratchy surface realities of the official crime statistics . |
| 13 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 14 | Because EXAFS enables us to look at the atomic environment of each alkali in turn we may begin to understand the structural basis of this curious effect . |
| 15 | This bids them to look at the common law ( i.e. the legal position ) before the Act , and the mischief that the statute was intended to remedy ; the Act is then to be construed in such a way as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy . |
| 16 | Yes , Mar Mark wanted you to look at the third line of the third verse where there is a reference to no eyes and wondered whether you have any ideas about that . |