Example sentences of "look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 4 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 5 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 6 | The recruiter looks for the index card , and finds it is not there . |
| 7 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 8 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 9 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 10 | Looks for the support of Graham and finds it . |
| 11 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 12 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 13 | Since then she had sometimes looked for the moon again in that dark , usually empty space but had never seen it . |
| 14 | Thus , Chartism was the eldest surviving child of Owenism ; and the six points of the People 's Charter brought into sharper focus , and as a realisable political objective within the given constitutional framework , the expectations of most of those who had earlier looked , if not for the re-creation of man on Owen 's visionary model , at least for a rapid and general application of co-operative practice as the means to a better life : who had , in short , looked for the reconstruction of the state as an industrial democracy . |
| 15 | you know I mean I 've looked through the parasitology books I 've got about two of 'em it 's all cestodes and lima luminaries and and worse the jargon in biology |
| 16 | ‘ A man like you might have looked through the screens of the rickshaw ; might have counted the time it took to reach the place , calculated the direction in which you were taken . ’ |
| 17 | I 've looked through the accounts ! |
| 18 | I have looked through the minute books from 1991 but can find no record of a Wales YFC representative having attended . |
| 19 | Timothy Gedge had looked through the window of Miss Lavant 's bedsitting-room and had seen her pretending to give Dr Greenslade a meal . |
| 20 | I do n't know , I 've never been in it , I 've just looked through the window and then they 've got junk , I mean that , that er |
| 21 | Then you should have looked through the door before he closed it behind him . |
| 22 | I have looked through the house , hoping to find him but all the rooms are empty . |
| 23 | The second cell looks after the rotorcure process , which laminates the plies of PVC film that comprise the tile material . |
| 24 | In the common river genus Cottus , or sticklebacks , or seashore blennies , the male defends a territory ; the female visits him , lays her eggs , which he then fertilizes ; the female departs ; and the male then looks after the eggs . |
| 25 | But from Monday to Friday , BHSI qualified head girl Hilary Dodd , together with three assistants , looks after the horses and stables . |
| 26 | Who looks after the horses at weekends now |
| 27 | ‘ I told that miserable bloke who looks after the lorries the same fing meself , ’ she told her friends . |
| 28 | Someone who looks after the youngsters and is co-operative . |
| 29 | The New Zealand government looks after the Cook Islands , Niue and Tokelau ; the Americans have Samoa , and the British look after the four islands of the Pitcairn group , selling stamps for the islanders to help them keep up their revenues . |
| 30 | It rose to its highest point of 5.4 per cent in 1984 , falling back again to 4.7 per cent in 1988 , and with a threat of a further decline to the lowest point since the Second World War of 4.4 per cent in 1989 — despite all the Conservative Party 's claims to be the party that looks after the defence of the realm . |