Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] to look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I take my jacket off again and sit down to look through the War files …
2 But it does mean that in analysing the effects of what appear to be clear cases of monopoly , we know where to look for the source of the problem .
3 One major difference in the auction business between America and Britain is the amount of travelling that one does : in one week one may do an ‘ appraisal day ’ ( the equivalent of the British Antiques Road Show ) in Pennsylvania and then go on to look at a dinner service in Baltimore .
4 You have already defined what the worry is , so go on to look at the cause , list different possibilities for dealing with the cause and then decide on the action which seems most likely to be effective .
5 I mean I suppose there is in all social work in a sense , that if you go in to look at a family and , and you 're trying to assess you know whether the children should be taken into care , well you 're exercising a a sort of statutory erm er sort of responsibility , and as far as the clients are concerned , er if you , like that can sort of get in the way of er er a more human sort of relationship if you see what I mean , because
6 From this discussion of London Creole we turn now to look at the London English of my informants in the next chapter .
7 We can and often should stop reasoning about art , and go instead to look at a painting , listen to some music , read a poem .
8 At the end of the day it is good to be able to think that as you step back to look at the work — especially if you remember to get down from the ladder first .
9 He had even come there to look at the river at low tide , it was in Ellen Ash 's Journal , they had brought a picnic of chicken and parsley pie .
10 And then I woke up again , and I come upstairs to look at the clock and it was half past three .
11 ‘ SSDs need only to look at the legislation to see they should be meeting the needs of the black community through mainstream budgets ’ .
12 We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food .
13 You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power .
14 We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns .
15 The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land .
16 You have only to look down the hall at this moment . ’
17 We have only to look around the Chamber to know that this Parliament is finished ; it is dead .
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