Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 2 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 3 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 4 | ‘ All towns look the same nowadays until you look up at the buildings above and the scenery beyond , ’ he grunted . |
| 5 | And if you look around at the world and try and find the women in positions of power , you have to say , where are they ? |
| 6 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 7 | ‘ If you look over in the corner , there 's a little ante-room with a single bed — intended , so I believe , to accommodate a child . ’ |
| 8 | If you look back to the cel with the plane on it , you can see its background is cyan , which has also been designated transparent , but only for that actor . |
| 9 | But you know erm if , if , if you look back to the days of the Raj erm it was a even within my living memory , erm people were joining the armed services or the overseas er er corp and the civil service overseas I suppose , yeah , er at a , at a fairly humble level and would either work their way up or they drink themselves stupid or they get mixed up with someone or they , you know but it was a , a , a recognized way of , of , of going , you know , either join the services or the |
| 10 | And if you look back at the minutes and then Yona I think she 's great as the secretary because she does n't let anything go but on the other hand she 's pretty informal about and the way th that over the weeks you know somebody er Julie or June or Mervia Ann come up with the suggestion that they maybe feel why do n't we do this and then by the next week it 's turned into a a rally or a big picket or or a record . |
| 11 | And it even happens where the clays which overlie the chalk , the tertiary clays which you can see for example in the top of the cliffs at Newhaven , and if you look back at the cliff from the western breakwater for example you can see clay sitting on top of chalk . |
| 12 | If we look out at the sky why ca n't we see stars during the day ? |
| 13 | This is ambitious , and if we look back at the scope of the information skills , it is subversive to present-day teaching . |
| 14 | If we look back at the exchange between the piano movers , for example , we can see that the verbs ( 's goin , 's got to take , ai n't goin' , do n't , come on ) are all in the present ( although they refer to the future ) . |
| 15 | If we look back at the previous example of the combustion of methane , we see that the enthalpy term was far larger than the entropy term . |
| 16 | While later law , for example , once familiar with trusts may have practised great toleration , if we look back to the origins of Roman trusts and their tentative beginnings with the rise of a consular jurisdiction , it does not seem at all plausible that absolutely any expression or gesture would immediately have been accepted . |
| 17 | If we look back to the middle years of the nineteenth century and to the debates about the extension of the franchise to the working class then hopes were expressed as to how voters should behave at the same time as there was anxiety and fear as to how they would actually behave . |
| 18 | And quite clearly there is a lot of work that needs to be done because if we look back on the discussion this afternoon , er this morning er and this evening , quite clearly there are conflicting views and conflicting interpretations about various criteria , various elements of information that should er er should go into the mix . |
| 19 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 20 | This is clear if we look back over the years . |
| 21 | If we look back over the past twenty-five years or so , we can distinguish three main phases : |
| 22 | We have all sorts of remaining problems but by and large , if we look back over the past three four years , tremendous progress has been made . |
| 23 | whereas you look back at the end of the day and if you have n't done what you did you sort of feel like a bit down ah and you wish you had |
| 24 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 25 | When I look back over the years I see impatience as the great sin of life . |
| 26 | He was a ‘ chest case ’ for years and when I look back at the photographs of him he 's always trying to look normal but actually his face is pained from trying to breathe . |
| 27 | When I look back at the photographs I think And even when it was long I had , there was one hairdresser there called Paul , whom I 'd go and see regularly . |
| 28 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 29 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 30 | And then when you look back to the Greeks , for example , here you have a culture that was dramatically successful in mathematics and logic and philosophy , but actually very unsuccessful in science , and there again you have a society which has nature guards erm and so nature is not a valid object for study . |