Example sentences of "just look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they had just looked at the laws governing slavery , as had done both their contemporaries and more recent social scientists , they would have been unable to distinguish between slavery as a minor and rare form of exploitation , on the one hand , supplying occasional domestic and sexual luxuries , and slavery as the basis of whole economies , on the other hand , where most of production is carried out by slave labour . |
| 2 | I do n't know , I 've never been in it , I 've just looked through the window and then they 've got junk , I mean that , that er |
| 3 | You , you just looking for the excuse |
| 4 | Because if you read the motion she is just looking for the rights of an individual and rule , rule six in the rule book applies the laws of natural justice , which we 're all for , the C E C agree , we 're all for it . |
| 5 | , just looking for the grapes |
| 6 | On the other hand the newer full-time farmers , with large loans to repay , as well as many of the part-time farmers , were initially just looking for the farm to pay its way . |
| 7 | ‘ For those children who get caught up in totally anti-social behaviour there is no point in just looking at the friendships . |
| 8 | No , but you 're just looking at the pen . |
| 9 | Just looking at the gardens , sun terraces and hills gave me an appetite ! — Still that 's no problem at Tropicana … with a buffet style service you can help yourself to as much as you like . |
| 10 | And we 're just looking at the route to In the previous er conditions of service we merely mentioned the time for which you were n't entitled to sick pay and the time after which you were entitled to full sick pay which we defined , we did n't define the route . |
| 11 | I 'm taking here about pure , blind betting of someone who is not attempting to exercise any skill but is just looking at the odds offered by the bookies , and pointing out — and I 'll have a table to demonstrate this in the talk I give at the Open Day — the way in which the rate of return on bets made in this way decreases steadily the longer the odds are offered . |
| 12 | I 'm just looking at the selection of flowers . |
| 13 | Just looking at the kind of programmes you 're getting on television now , erm Sunday evening there 's programme about emotions , ‘ Okay Two ’ is n't it called ? |
| 14 | On the other hand — again , just looking at the economics — while you are working , you will not be spending money on entertainment . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm just looking at the report of the officer who called on Delia Forbes . |
| 16 | Er , it is important too , to stress that the Agency is acting as a bridge between the purchasing er , authority , the Social Services Department , and the er , independent sector , and that er , it 's also important that er , too , that er , in many cases , er , the provider 's income er , will , will not just come from Social Services , but it may be that people are purchasing their own care , if , if they 're not eligible for public , public 's er , help through , through funding , and therefore the scheme is much wider than just looking at the purchasing intentions of the , the Social Services Department . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just looking at the scenery . ’ |
| 18 | Thank you , that was lovely , lovely , lovely , erm it 's Mr , erm , and I suppose we ought to , no , ju ju just can you just pause a mo on it please because I 'm just looking at the possibilities , there are two names that John has found us instrumentations . |
| 19 | All three features are designed to convey that Henry is not just looking at the roots but reflecting on them and struggling to think what it is they bring to mind . |
| 20 | ‘ I was just looking at the place . |
| 21 | The principal aim is to create the impression from just looking at the street that it is not , just there for cars but for pedestrians , cyclists and residents too . |
| 22 | really , I was just looking in the market . |
| 23 | So one way of just looking from the graph and sort of re reminding you , oh , hang on , we 've got a many-one here , we have n't got a one-one . |
| 24 | ‘ You were being the protective secretary , just looking after the boss . ’ |
| 25 | He 's just looking after the present , not the future . |
| 26 | He also said his objective was ‘ just looking after the interests of world trade . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Oh — well , I suppose I 'll have to spend my time in just looking round the place . ’ |
| 28 | I 'd die , honestly , I 'd just look into the space between his eyes and I 'd say something deep and intellectual like ‘ So — er — did you do it with Barbra Streisand ? |
| 29 | See what see what you can do and perhaps er Jane you could just look into the possibility of erm because if I mean if we were going to do a run of pens we would n't just have a thousand would we ? |
| 30 | No , you can just look into the camera and say , erm , |