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Example sentences of "he look [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	If he looks at the dates of all those expressions , he will see that we published our statement in May , even after my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) had made his remarks .
2	He looks at the bags of plasma : 15,000 ccs have been moved through Ali .
3	But I would make clear to Mr if he looks at the minutes of the budget review sub-committee , that the suggestion of the director of property services wastes his time fully exploring all options for the disposal of all or any part of the County Farms estate , for which he probably asks for a large amount of money , since it involves an enormous amount of wasted time , is not been agreed , it 's a non-delegated item , it was a recommendation of this committee which has not been moved at this committee , and it was a most unfortunate and woolly form of words .
4	Amanda Hornby has gardened here for 20 years and her husband ; he looks after the lawns .
5	Charlie asked as he looked up the stairs .
6	He looked into the wardrobes and through the drawers in the dressing-table and tallboy .
7	And something else ; something he saw as the curtain tore away and he looked into the depths of the unbelievable face above him , fractionally dulled his reflexes .
8	Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder .
9	He looked over the women in the ship 's dining room , just checking , a few glanced his way .
10	Instead he looked through the cages towards Woil and with one fierce look stopped his babbling short .
11	He looked at the soles of the feet , making careful note of what he saw .
12	To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory .
13	He looked at the bubbles intently : they could be frogspawn or snow just fallen , or clouds , or millions of tiny crystals , almost invisible .
14	He looked at the woodcuts , which were described on the title page as ‘ Illustrations by B.G. ’ A female figure with a scarfed head , flying apron and great wooden shoes , standing in a clearing surrounded by dark pine trees full of white eyes among their crossing arms of needles .
15	He looked at the furnishings , the pictures , the bed with its rich crimson bedspread .
16	Sometimes he looked at the clouds and wondered what percentage ashes they were .
17	He looked at the keys .
18	He looked at the letters .
19	Late that night , he looked at the letters again , in the bathroom .
20	He looked at the visitors .
21	He looked at the difficulties , with open eyes .
22	It cost rather a lot , Nigel discovered when he looked at the bills he was expected to pay .
23	He looked at the stains on his hands , then at the murder beside the totem .
24	He looked at the lights in the bedroom windows , and wondered which one was hers .
25	He looked at the bottles , which were many colours , red and green and blue and smoky topaz , and contained wisps and rinsings of nothing much , a sigh of smoke in one , a rocking of spirituous liquid in another .
26	He looked at the holes I had dug and grinned .
27	He looked at the names underneath .
28	He looked at the children , at Nick 's horrified face , and then at Auntie Lou .
29	He looked at the sectors of the power industry that the closure of the nuclear plants will hit hardest : electricity , its combined production with useful heat ( cogeneration ) , and district heating .
30	When he was looking to expand with another concept , he looked at the labels in his shops for something with a distinctive yet commercial image and decided on this French casualwear label .