Example sentences of "[pers pn] to look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he has written to builders , architects , surveyors and other organisations asking them to look into the problem . |
| 2 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 3 | He urged them to look to the future , to ‘ carry the spirit of Alton General on into Treloar and build on it . ’ |
| 4 | In their analyses of the understanding " displays " of next turns , Cameron and Taylor argue , the conversation analysts fail to follow their own prescriptions , which require them to look to the participants ' analysis displayed in the next turn . |
| 5 | PC Chris Eden said : ‘ It 's amazing how drivers ’ attitudes change when we ask them to look at the recording . |
| 6 | The allegation of the defence had to be met and properly dealt with , so the matter would be returned to the justices for them to look at the circumstances and come to a proper determination after they had heard further evidence . |
| 7 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 8 | A notice apologising for keeping visitors waiting and inviting them to look at the booklets adds the finishing touch . |
| 9 | The Titfords ' immediate neighbours boasted domestic servants : two of them to look after a boot manufacturer and his wife at no. 15 , and just the one to attend to the needs of a photographer and his stepdaughter who were living on the other side . |
| 10 | Nenna would never have dreamed before this of asking them to look after the girls . |
| 11 | And we also expect them to look after the countryside and that 's something we must pay for . |
| 12 | He wanted me to look at the provision by the business of work experience for secondary school students during the compulsory stage of their education . |
| 13 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 14 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 15 | While writing this chapter , it occurred to me to look through the list of constellations to see in how many the five leading stars were , in order , Alpha , Beta , Gamma , Delta and Epsilon . |
| 16 | ‘ It was basically the novel that made it necessary for me to look into the Bible . |
| 17 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 18 | Gasping , I pulled out my lighter and held it above me to look round the room . |
| 19 | Pam prepared me to look after the baby . |
| 20 | I 'm sure she 'd like a wee turn out and it 's no problem for me to look after the twins . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 22 | I want you to look at a cow now . |
| 23 | Is the on the C V T , but again it 's , it 's easier to look at something when we 're talking about this , so I 'm going to ask you to look at the Covermaster rate book , which does n't have page numbers , but I want you to find the allocation to units table which is about four or five pages in . |
| 24 | The evening will enable you to look at the paintings and sculptures in an atmosphere of unhurried calm : quite a contrast to the frantic activity that precedes the show , as veteran exhibitor Fred Dubery explains |
| 25 | Now the next , I want you to look at the verse prologue of the play . |
| 26 | ‘ I want you to look after the boy , Hammond . |
| 27 | It was most kind and public-spirited of you to look after the seat for us in this way . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been waiting for you to look after the children while I fetch him . ’ |
| 29 | I should have left you to look like a wally . |
| 30 | Are we to look within the Church for those kind of murderous emotions ? ’ |