Example sentences of "a [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wander round the park a bit looking at the trees and stuff . |
| 2 | We 're walking back from the shops — me and Marie — and we stop for a bit to look at the lights in the electric shop . |
| 3 | There 's rows of benches in front of it and I sit down for a bit to look at the tree . |
| 4 | I am a present looking at the dozen or so cones sitting on the floor and am making up my mind to do something with them , but even with ingenious ideas , how does one find time with all that knitting to do ? |
| 5 | The unfurnished rent for a bedroom looking through the tree tops to Wilton Place , a long-windowed living room overlooking Hyde Park , and access to my own flat roof , was £2 per week in those halcyon days . |
| 6 | Brenton , in a study looking at the feasibility of the voluntary sector replacing the statutory sector to some degree in the provision of personal services , concludes : |
| 7 | As a final thought , I think it would be worth Leeds 's while to have a scout looking over the US collegiate system . |
| 8 | LATE SHOW RANGERS suffered a shock defeat at this venue early last season and a repeat looked on the cards as the Ibrox side struggled to find any rhythm after their extra-time exertions against Aberdeen in midweek . |
| 9 | It 's a girl looking for the middle son , Paul . |
| 10 | For television , what began with the appointment in March 1985 of Professor Alan Peacock to chair a committee looking at the financing of the BBC , has turned into a radical shake-up of commercial TV which , for the moment , leaves the BBC largely unscathed . |
| 11 | In 1971 , the General Nursing Council convened a committee to look into the the use of visual aids in training schools . |
| 12 | Willi led her into a huge living-room with a window looking over the valley . |
| 13 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 14 | But it is going to be necessary because , by the time the later subjects come on stream , there will certainly be a need to look at the first ones again , such as maths and science . |
| 15 | However , he suggested there was perhaps a need to look into the system more closely . |
| 16 | In the light of these partial versions of reality , I suggest there is a need to look beyond the surface presentation , whether handed out in the form of a press release or in the crime statistics which senior officers consistently use as an indication of social mayhem . |
| 17 | I stood for a moment looking at the mattress on the bed where a knife had been used to open up the sides . |
| 18 | She paused for a moment looking for the right words . |
| 19 | She had n't much to tell him — merely that she had stopped on the bridge for a moment to look at the river , had been attracted by the gulls and then noticed what was exciting them . |
| 20 | Well he 's not gon na want to , he 's not , sha I mean he 's it 's not a meeting to look around the place is it really ? |
| 21 | Now have they got a directive to look after the front now or not ? |
| 22 | These are moments of some tension , but if he has a team looking for the same thing , they are at least not lonely moments . |
| 23 | As a result of this work the Coordinating Committee for Under Fives ( CCUF ) , an umbrella organisation of statutory and voluntary sector groups and individuals providing a service to under fives , decided to organise a conference to look at the issues of integration of special needs children within mainstream provision . |
| 24 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 25 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 26 | After Dan had drunk the hot sweet coffee that kept her awake at nights , they moved off , sitting in the small car for a while to look at the map . |
| 27 | Instead of a person looking across the room to the door there is a groping in the dark so that a painstaking progress is made towards the door through constant reference to each piece of furniture . |
| 28 | ‘ The writing shows a person looking to the future , highly motivated , with a somewhat optimistic approach to life ( shown by the upward crossing of some of his t-bars ) . |
| 29 | They did not , for instance , examine how a head looks at the development of fellow-staff after the time of first appointment . |
| 30 | I also suggested that Britons should be urged not to ask for a chance to look at the remains until the situation improves . |