Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 4 | He managed to keep working , paid for his board and lodging , helped her to look after the handicapped boy and did a few jobs around the house . |
| 5 | Pam prepared me to look after the baby . |
| 6 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 7 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 8 | He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it . |
| 9 | Guiding his entire policy was a sense of perspective , which allowed him to look beyond the immediate impasse and to visualize a future beyond Algeria . |
| 10 | Walking across to her , she turned her to look in the full-length mirror . |
| 11 | The holistic approach of phrenology taught them to look at the body-mind dichotomy and to think in terms of prevention rather than quick cures that were often spurious . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | He urged them to look to the future , to ‘ carry the spirit of Alton General on into Treloar and build on it . ’ |
| 14 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 15 | I asked her to look under the sinker plate , to see whether all the brushes and plastic gear were spinning freely . |
| 16 | I also asked him to look at the Twyford Down plan with a view to having a tunnel under the Down rather than a cutting . |
| 17 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Yes , Mar Mark wanted you to look at the third line of the third verse where there is a reference to no eyes and wondered whether you have any ideas about that . |
| 20 | It surprised Dougal that Lorton wanted him to look after the coins . |
| 21 | She trusted him to look after the Post 's interests before he sold the story to any other outlets , but she did not know whether she could trust him with the story . |