Example sentences of "have [verb] look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 2 | So far , Tony Baldry has promised to look into Mrs Armitage 's campaign , while Norma Major has said she ca n't help . |
| 3 | Any resistance or reluctance by the scion to take everything , perhaps because it is getting some of what it needs from its own roots , and the stock has to start looking for ways to get rid of the unused energy , and that means making its own top growth , which takes the form of suckers or ‘ briars ’ . |
| 4 | There are many reasons why fashion has begun to look to Cocteau , not simply because it is his centenary and his Hellenic graphics have begun to adorn cult objects in designer stores ( on white vases at Oggetti , on black watch faces at the Watch Gallery ) . |
| 5 | Stephen Gamble , aged twenty-seven , a glass-house foreman at Oxford University Botanic Garden , is travelling to the USA to study educational and interpretive techniques at gardens and botanical collections on the Eastern Seaboard ; Fergus McCormick , a 28 year-old architect , will visit East Germany and Poland to examine the practical philosophy behind the restoration and reconstruction of historic buildings in the aftermath of the Second World War ; and Peter Sturgess , aged twenty-three , a postgraduate student at Liverpool University , has chosen to look at management , educational and interpretive techniques in parts of the Algarve . |
| 6 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 7 | I can not remember ever feeling hungry ; you did n't have to go looking for food , you just picked it off the trees . |
| 8 | Do you have to keep looking for things ? |
| 9 | Without them , the police would never have started looking for Spicer . ’ |
| 10 | We also have a a budgeting process er for the er for the firm 's year and we 're right in the throes of that right now for next year for ninety four , ninety five but it wo n't be any surprise to you that the recession er hit the office like any other business or the businesses that you go and see , er quite significantly , er the businesses that we 've been looking after , they 've stopped investing , they 've stopped looking at I T issues and have become very cautious and they 've basically taken stock as to where their position is . |
| 11 | The woman , from Heywood , near Rochdale , had stopped to look at directions in Farnworth near Manchester when the man struck at 5.40am on Saturday . |
| 12 | From what he 'd said , she gathered that he had come looking for Travis at Mrs Hepwood 's behest . |
| 13 | Clearly I had arrived between downpours of the searing acid rain , while none of the local wildlife had come looking for snack in my vicinity . |
| 14 | As he left the café he realised that he had forgotten to look at Elsie 's feet . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've got to look at evidence , that 's what you 've got to do ! ’ |
| 16 | She said local library and the local library could be run by the regional council , it could be run by the district council because although you work part-time you 've got to look at pension if you 've got other income er to use the revenue maximum . |
| 17 | ‘ But we 've got to look at ways of helping Graham Taylor . |
| 18 | He says the players ca n't wait around while negotiations go on — they 've got to look for jobs elsewhere straight away . |
| 19 | And er there were two nurses always detailed to go around about half past nine and tidy all the beds up and the patients had got to look like patients . |
| 20 | On Jan. 14 Olszewski had agreed to look into budget proposals from the Solidarity trade union which would cause less hardship . |
| 21 | He had gone to look for wood . |
| 22 | The central point of the book is a reflection of a non-technical ‘ wider ecumenism ’ , ‘ a juxtapositioning of mental shapes or ideas through which the poet had learned to look at life , his own and that reflected by others . ’ |
| 23 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 24 | Sometimes you chuck summat away by accident and then you have to go looking in bins to find it . |
| 25 | As these lectures are concerned with the role of religion I have decided to look at Marxism in terms of two triads — one of commitment and the other of outcome . |
| 26 | After playing it I came to the conclusion that it was one of the biggest pile of dog 's droppings I have had to look at while researching this feature . |
| 27 | You might think I 've got a cheek to interfere but someone 's got to look after Maureen . |
| 28 | And he 's gone to look around Tenby . |