Example sentences of "look [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 2 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 3 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 4 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 5 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 6 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 7 | It is indeed remarkable — and perhaps a comment on the tunnel vision of many in academic life — that no previous scholars have looked for the Belgian detective 's literary antecedents in the most obvious of sources , the Medieval Mystery Play . |
| 8 | I have also looked for the planetary nebula NGC 7662 , which is in the field with the triangle made up of Lambda ( 3.8 ) , Kappa ( 4.1 ) and Iota ( 4.3 ) . |
| 9 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 10 | The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery . |
| 11 | With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings . |
| 12 | MMT has two main lines of business : developing , implementing and supporting custom applications ; and software facilities management , where it looks after the day-to-day operation of a customer 's software . |
| 13 | This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives . |
| 14 | A small full-time staff based in St Albans looks after the day-to-day administration and finances of the Campaign and produced a monthly newspaper , What 's Brewing , and the annual Good Beer Guide . |
| 15 | ‘ Fate looks after the Indian Empire , ’ |
| 16 | God Almighty , Janine , you 've never once looked after the bloody kid for a whole day since it was born ! ’ |
| 17 | Matthew McIllvanney was not the real boss of Cutwater Yacht Charters ( Bahamas ) Limited , which belonged to a retired theatre owner who now lived in Bermuda and was a long-time friend of my father , a friendship that had secured me the job of skippering Wavebreaker when Masquerade was wrecked , but McIllvanney actually looked after the day-to-day running of the charter business . |
| 18 | Typically , for Eliot , this hope for the future , following the French anthropologists ' piece , looks towards the distant past . |
| 19 | It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and the Faculty of Informatics . |
| 20 | It is flanked by a group of handsome Victorian residences and looks towards the new Phase I building which provides studios , laboratories and workshops for the faculties of Art and Design , Science and Technology and Informatics . |
| 21 | Our house is on a small hill which looks towards the large hill , Monte Regia . |
| 22 | Launched in September with no publicity , one of the worst time slots imaginable — one or four o'clock on a Sunday morning ( depending on which TV region you 're in ) — and what looks like the lowest budget in TV , it nevertheless achieved a ratings increase from 300,000 to 1.6 million in it 's first four months and , according to Granada TV insiders , it 's guaranteed to run ’ almost indefinitely ’ . |
| 23 | Anyway that looks like the only tribute problem for this financial year is n't it ? |
| 24 | It 's all a load of bull shit basically , it seems , it seems that the para 's were certainly under fire , with nobody knows and erm , it does , the only thing that is blatantly clear , all these lying transferred by the para 's and they were like dragging them away and stuff and the only , there 's only one member that 's had any thing to do with the I R A that they can find out about , that 's one so at least nine were n't firing definitely , erm , three may of done or may not of done so it looks like the only thing that basic the same is looks like at least nine were innocent , you know its all right for |
| 25 | looks like the REAL THING |
| 26 | The obscure Boso , an alumnus of the monastic school at Regensburg , looks like the perfect exemplar of everything for which Alcuin had argued . |
| 27 | At first glance it also looks like the perfect market of classic economic theory , where all potential buyers and sellers are simultaneously in touch with each other and able to agree the most acceptable price to meet their requirements . |
| 28 | RANGER & LOEW 'S embossed stainless steel art deco cigarette case looks like the authentic article — but it 's even better because your king-size cigarettes will fit neatly in — which they would n't have done in an original case . |
| 29 | ‘ It looks like the other side of the road to me , ’ murmured Bill Waddy . |
| 30 | We may feel today that things might have been better planned , and that it is a great pity that what now looks like the decisive contribution of England to world history should have been carried through with so much muddle and mess . |