Example sentences of "[noun sg] to look [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She came to visit Streatlam to look at the horses and I thought what a very handsome woman she was . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It was second nature to look at the linesman but I knew I was on . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He resisted the temptation to look under the rug and see how his prisoner was getting on . |
| 15 | However , to build on the past achievements of chemistry , it is now time to look at the material and constructional requirements of biosensors . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |