Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] to look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 2 | When prospective buyers came to look at the house , which happened more and more frequently , they stayed out of the way until they had gone . |
| 3 | When fire protection officials came to look at the dump they discovered mattresses deposited by a bed company , furniture and even potentially hazardous oil cans . |
| 4 | I went to London two weeks running to look at the Tower ! ’ |
| 5 | Observers sent to look for the men came under heavy fire , seriously injuring a French officer . |
| 6 | It aroused fury among the educated classes in Teheran , and it was never ratified ny the Majles , It was at this time that the same Iranian nationalists began to look to the United States for support against British exploitation . |
| 7 | ‘ We should not expect our tenants to have to look at the mess caused by their careless neighbours , ’ said Coun Dixon . |
| 8 | There is a limited amount of money available for these payments , so social fund officers have to look at the needs of all those who apply for help and decide which needs can be met . |
| 9 | It was not until the twentieth century that visual artists started to look into the landscape of the Highlands and Islands and try to say something about the lives of the people that lived through those times . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's no one of any consequence in London at the moment , ’ she told him , ‘ but you wo n't be able to move for the millions of nobodies going to look at the Tower . ’ |
| 11 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 12 | This was still some way from a mathematical science , and chemists continued to look for the Kepler or the Newton of Chemistry who would make it deductive and mathematical . |
| 13 | Councillors agreed to look at the possibility of closing off Roedowns Road to help with possible traffic-flow problems . |
| 14 | These doctors tend to look upon the PHCNs as people they could consult with and give a cold shoulder to the rest of the nurses . |
| 15 | ACE/AGIT recommend that one of the governors undertakes to look after the interests of the children with special educational needs . |
| 16 | More pressure would have to be applied in that area , before the newspapers started to look in the direction of the National Socialists . |
| 17 | Are the clips on the sidewalk grills meant to look like the soles of giant feet ! " |
| 18 | Similarly , mothers of babies and children tend to look towards the experience and activities of those women whom they perceive as " successful " , " caring " and " attractive " in the maternal role . |
| 19 | ( Most handlers tend to look at the horse instead , which merely makes him point more agitatedly . ) |