Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | I took the trouble in my own district to look into the subject because I could see the way the demand for less services . |
| 7 | Certainly one is not under an obligation to look after the child if one did not promise to do so just because it would have been a good thing to promise . |
| 8 | little support are most affected and we need to er , go back to what Kathleen was saying about education , we need to help young girls get self-confidence , more se , coping skills to deal with these pressures , but also , as other people have said , we need to get the government to look at the fact as , that encourage women to keep smoking and address those issues as well . |
| 9 | I have asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State to look into the matter and to contact the hon. Gentleman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A French medic was climbing the grassy bank from the sunken road to look at the Officer as I got the prisoners out of the dug-out and back to their previous positions in the hollow . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ Do n't say you 're in too much of a hurry to look into the cathedral before you go . ’ |
| 13 | There is no reason to look at the ceiling because it no longer exists . |
| 14 | Slides were used to punctuate the talk , as well as to illustrate points , but he had a tendency to look at the screen while speaking , which is distracting . |
| 15 | In order to look at the effect that financial devolution , in the form of LMS , is likely to have , both on schools and on the quality of education , it may be helpful to look closely at what has happened in institutions that have already experienced various levels of financial autonomy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He resisted the temptation to look under the rug and see how his prisoner was getting on . |
| 18 | However , to build on the past achievements of chemistry , it is now time to look at the material and constructional requirements of biosensors . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |