Example sentences of "we look [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 2 | ‘ Could we look at the night of the murder , last Thursday ? ’ |
| 3 | Bill , can we look at the record |
| 4 | " Shall we look under the yew tree first ? " |
| 5 | in the way it has done , and furthermore , every year there 's a survey taken in this country , where we look across the country at the public service and we ask people in the community what they think of their public services . |
| 6 | Similarly , I think , as we look into the past , there are different versions of the past . |
| 7 | Okay well if we look into the development of the presidency what we 've seen is a gradually changing conception of the office . |
| 8 | If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian |
| 9 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 10 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |
| 11 | We look towards the hymen , |
| 12 | We look towards the painter from the painting 's point of view . |
| 13 | Absolutely , and you will find when we look on the video the number of people who held up a piece of paper if you hold things up and I 'm holding this now because I 'm about to write but if if you stand here and hold a piece of paper then it 's very difficult to make symmetrical palm gestures , open palm gestures . |
| 14 | If we look for the fashion that 's the veneer , it 's the meaning that 's the more important . |
| 15 | I 'll keep the boy close by me when we look for the treasure ; then , when we have both ship and treasure , we 'll persuade Jim to join us , and give him some of the treasure for all his help . ’ |
| 16 | We look for the parrot . |
| 17 | Moreover , we look to the way in which its work would be laced into the work of local education authorities and the Schools Council , and the close collaboration with the Office of Fair Trading and the Department of Trade which it would no doubt enjoy , to make sure that consumer needs came first |
| 18 | John Dower , the father of the National Parks , got it right when he said that we look to the farming communities for the continuance not only of the landscape but of the drama itself , rural life and work . |
| 19 | Whether we have in mind the student learning that such and such is the case , or learning how to do such and such , we look to the student to rise above the learning . |
| 20 | If we look to the example of shopping , will more convenient arrangements attract older customers ? |
| 21 | Help us as we look to the future . |
| 22 | If we look to the future , then it 's going to be absolutely essential that food be produced artificially , because the planet is n't going to be able to support the population which it 's going to have on it . |
| 23 | ‘ We look to the league season to provide a stable basis of earnings with cup income and sales and purchases of player registrations being more volatile . |
| 24 | The dramaturgical metaphor would suggest that we look to the audience for the arbitration of the action , and it is perhaps no surprise that the peer group emerged as crucial in this respect . |
| 25 | But it does seem to be = another example of the way in which we look to the amateur , to somebody who depends , for example , on the , very often on the legal briefing of the Clerk of the Court , erm to counterbalance that with his common sense . |
| 26 | We look at the interior first , then work outwards . ’ |
| 27 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 28 | It will be easier to understand the most important period of Coniston mining — the 19th C — if first of all we look at the way the men were employed and the techniques they used . |
| 29 | Tomorrow we look at the way that 's done . |
| 30 | If we look at the insurance order and the one relating to building societies , it is quite clear there that the auditor has to be acting in his capacity o er as auditor . |