Example sentences of "they look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 " Have they looked in the book ? "
2 ‘ Does the profession — preparers and auditors — want the new regime to give them principles on which they can use their professional judgment or are they looking for a cookbook ?
3 If guides are not being paid , why should they look after the interests of their ‘ clients ’ ?
4 They may not be able to fly and one does n't like to enquire too deeply into how elegant they look below the waterline , but steamer ducks — their wings gyrating through the water like paddle-wheels — can make 12 knots , and more in a following wind .
5 This is why the final scene , when they look through the kitchen window and can not tell pigs from humans , has such numbing force .
6 because I , the doctors I work for they have opted out , they are what they call it fund holding , they 've got their own budget , they 've got a , they 've got a practice manager and its run as a business and they look at every thing and any profits that they get are ploughed back into the G P's surgery and er , and they improve the surgery facilities for the patience , and it will be a better service , but I mean how can Labour come in and then say right you 're not doing that , how can they undo it
7 The exception is a Warwickshire shopping centre where they look at a peacock when they want to know the time .
8 if they 're saying there are no restrictions , cos they can not , they simply can not give there good clearance if there was something which is something of a restriction of competition , they must give exemption , they have no jurisdiction to do anything else , if they look at a clause and say
9 They look at a map , draw a line and produce leaflets but nothing is done on the ground to withstand the pressure of hundreds of people following the route .
10 Government ministers seem to think that they look at a pile of brochures .
11 I 'm sure if people will perhaps they look at the church and think oh it 's out of touch but it is n't there are churches that are alive and have something very relevant to say today .
12 They look at the goods in the shiny , illuminated shop-windows , and wander in and out of the boutiques , but do not buy anything .
13 When Ballantyne 's boys found the tree they look at the wonder of the wildlife .
14 I suggest to those who talk of regional banding that they look at the protection that the banding system will offer to people living in London and the south-east .
15 They look at the work and think ‘ I could never do that .
16 That 's , that 's , but , but actually if they look at the DOPACS times , for the people doing the work , the surveyors and the designers , they can do their work in two months which is spread out over a year .
17 They would perhaps like to buy it , but they ca n't sell their property and also if they can sell theirs and they look at the cost of the property and they work out how much they 've got to pay for the mortgage then they find they ca n't afford it .
18 They look at the position at hand and figure out which end-pattern is appropriate to try for , which is ‘ nearest ’ , or easiest to get to .
19 They look at the newspaper front pages then back to the report .
20 Can I just finally say that the whole import of the orders is to ensure that they look at the criteria of authorisation , they are concerned with the authorisation of firms which take public deposits and investments and when that is brought into question , when there is evidence to suggest that those criteria are not being adequately med it must be right to impose a non costly duty on the auditors to bring that about , that is what these orders do tonight , I think they 're an extremely welcome addition to the stable of measures of regulation and they will improve materially depositor protection .
21 ‘ Some men bring their kids in and it 's like a trip down memory lane they look at the smoke bombs or whoopee cushions .
22 And whether it 's nasty shouting arrogant Kenneth Clarke or lovely perfumed Virginia , they 're all the same underneath in terms of the way they look at the Health Service .
23 What it basically means is that an extrovert tends to tends to have a wide area of interests but wo n't investigate them as much as perhaps that that deeply , and that includes friends as well , and that includes people around them and they look at the wideness rather than the depth .
24 and then they look at the caravan !
25 He started balancing like this I goes , I 'm fil I 'm taping you not filming you , they think you 're filming them , you know , they look at the microphone and they go , hi !
26 People on television often behave as though they are interacting with us ; they look at the camera and address themselves to us , and though this seems to be a fiction , because we can not interrupt or contradict , still we can switch off or over , and TV programmes are influenced by viewers ' letters and ratings .
27 If you have players who are obsessed with mapping detail , they will have a very tough time inside the Castle , but in describing the outside of it , when their characters seem to see slight differences each time they look at the buildings , add the disorientating detail that the characters can not remember exactly what the Castle looked like at any time prior to the present moment .
28 In vain they look for a contrast with the adult world in the family which is yielding and running after them .
29 Chelsea will decide whether to sign Szewczyk in the next 48 hours as they look for a replacement for injured Paul Elliott .
30 We spoke in earlier chapters of people 's search for meaning as they look for the person who has died , and saw that at such times a sortie into faith healing or clairvoyance is quite common .
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