Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I look towards the Merchiston Castle here , I wonder what John Napier who lived here from 1550 to 1627 would have said could he see us today . |
| 2 | I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed . |
| 3 | I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office . |
| 4 | I look through the blinds . |
| 5 | I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door . |
| 6 | Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear . |
| 7 | The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend . |
| 8 | I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’ |
| 9 | Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open . |
| 10 | Some snatch of verse from a Jacobean tragedy flashed through his mind : ‘ When I look into the fishponds in my garden , methinks I see a thing , armed with a rake , that seems to strike at me . ’ |
| 11 | Could you carry on here while I look into the shipping side of things ? " |
| 12 | As a member in business , I look on the Institute 's failure to address the problem of conflicts between the two roles with concern . |
| 13 | DENNING L.J. : I look on the father 's letter as dealing with two things . |
| 14 | Sometimes this was stated explicitly , as by a physiotherapist : ‘ I look on the disability as being the overall diagnosis … to me the children have got a disability , i.e. spina bifida , cerebral palsy , to me that 's the disability . |
| 15 | I look to the TV , the video recorder . |
| 16 | I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties . |
| 17 | ‘ At present I look to the judiciary for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence and to the Parole Board for advice on risk . |
| 18 | Thus ‘ I look at the sun ’ and ‘ I sit in the sun ’ use the English word ‘ sun ’ in two different ways . |
| 19 | Thus as I look at the figures I see the question in a broader context . |
| 20 | But the thing I keep coming back to when I look at the figures is that Northallerton is only a third bigger than Selby . |
| 21 | Yeah you 're right I look at the headlights . |
| 22 | As I look at the water I hear a distinctive slurp as a chub sucks some morsel through the surface ; then I see the rings rippling away from the spot where it happened . |
| 23 | ‘ I look at the mothers to whom I am going to have say it and I say ‘ bloody hell , if I was in her shoes how would I feel , what would I do ? ’ |
| 24 | It is currently 35 degrees Fahrenheit out and the wind is blowing up the canyon at 87 mph hour which gives us a wind chill factor of — just a moment while I look at the chart — says ‘ Should not be skiing ’ which is good because we are n't . |
| 25 | I look at the dress . |
| 26 | Well er , that 's alright , I , I would n't , I look at the things which we do very well , erm , and a lot of people say |
| 27 | Now I do n't care what people say : at times I look at the child and I am so happy I ca n't sleep at night . |
| 28 | I just try to make sure I look at the person I 'm talking to , and show them I 'm interested . |
| 29 | The pretence that this is not so is what makes me sick , he wrote , when I look at the works of the past . |
| 30 | I look at the back of her head for a minute . |