Example sentences of "look [prep] [art] [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 | Indeed , Norris looks for a possible rapprochement between deconstruction and the Anglo-American philosophical tradition exemplified by Searle , though he finds that Derrida has more possible affinities with Searle 's master , Austin . |
| 4 | TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season |
| 5 | His home is presently in Kidderminster from where he weekly commutes while he looks for a new house in the local area . |
| 6 | It actually looks for a lowest point , not a summit . |
| 7 | In such a culture , knowledge is superseded by wisdom , which looks for a total view of life , seeking to come to terms with its essential suffering and aspiring [ in Goethe 's words ] to " live resolutely in wholeness and fullness " . |
| 8 | When a child looks for a particular size box or a piece of material of a certain colour or texture , he is taking early steps towards sorting . |
| 9 | Jemima Puddle-Duck looks for a quiet spot . |
| 10 | The second wave occurs at puberty when the young person looks for a sexual partner , and if there has been minimum conflict during the phallic phase this is of the opposite sex . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 13 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 14 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 15 | The researchers have looked for a specific decay of the proton , namely into a positron and a neutral pi-meson ( n ) . |
| 16 | When , in the manner of migratory buffalo , they moved elsewhere , its owner , an Indian businessman named Ram , who had spent £2m refurbishing the club , looked for a quick sale . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Just as PageMaker provides almost infinite control over each element of each page so Ventura looks after the complete document . |
| 20 | The borough council already looks after the eastern end of the ruined priory which was the first Augustinian monastery . |
| 21 | With one assistant , she looks after the legal work for the whole of the company , undertakes the company secretarial work and attends Board meetings . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This looks after the day-to-day running of the Campaign , leaving the executive to consider major policy initiatives . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Fate looks after the Indian Empire , ’ |
| 26 | God Almighty , Janine , you 've never once looked after the bloody kid for a whole day since it was born ! ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A couple who had looked after an elderly father in their home for many years , were persuaded at last to take one week 's holiday . |
| 29 | It looks towards a statutory requirement that representatives of trade unions should be appointed , in that capacity , to the directing boards of companies . |
| 30 | Typically , for Eliot , this hope for the future , following the French anthropologists ' piece , looks towards the distant past . |