Example sentences of "look [prep] them [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society .
2 The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality .
3 ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’
4 The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution .
5 We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health .
6 Unlike the adults , who are used to seeing people looking at them through the underwater viewing window , the baby could n't believe her eyes when she saw people under the water and kept going back down to have another look .
7 The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop .
8 The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop .
9 It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy .
10 She touched the flowers , looking at them with the steady , close , and intent gaze that Annie Laval also reserved for such an occasion .
11 ‘ The semi-detached pair on the right of yours , looking at them from the road , belong to one of the Oxford colleges .
12 ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch .
13 Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper .
14 As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race .
15 It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman .
16 ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’
17 The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave .
18 During the summer months hordes of visitors regularly congregate there to eat and drink at their leisure on the paved terrace between the mellow sandstone walls of the inn itself and the river 's edge , where many sit on the low stone parapet and look below them through the clear , greenish water at the mottled dark-brown and silvery backs of the carp that rise to the surface to snap up the crisps and the crusts thrown down to them .
19 As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett .
20 When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken .
21 Those social scientists who regard human actions as undetermined will look to them as the basis of counterfactual claims .
22 The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation .
23 1989 , The Year Of The Microscope ( to Jan ) Largest ever collection of working microscopes on public display ; the public are invited to bring along their own specimens and look at them through the different microscopes .
24 The problems of crofting may be insoluble in terms of practical politics , but , if we look at them in the right way , we may find that they themselves are a resource .
25 All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren .
26 No you ca n't look at them at the moment .
27 But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag .
28 Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening .
29 ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’
30 We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way .
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