Example sentences of "look [prep] it at " in BNC.
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1 | After they saw the pig — a pot-bellied Vietnamese — on Central News South last night — Environmental Health officers warned the pig 's owner that she 's breaking the law by the way she looks after it at home . |
2 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
3 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
4 | And anyway — ’ Clare sat again , holding the book still before her face but looking over it at Caro ’ — It 's all very well is n't it , being the gracious model of womanhood , with a tribe of servants around you . |
5 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
6 | She had her back to the entrance of the garden and was looking across it at a small orchard whose fruit never found its way to the rector 's table , always being pilfered by the small street arabs of the district . |
7 | But that 's because we 're looking at it at close quarters . |
8 | The point is that many an insect was saved by an exceedingly slight resemblance to a twig or a leaf or a fall of dung , on occasions when it was far away from a predator , or on occasions when the predator was looking at it at dusk , or looking at it through a fog , or looking at it while distracted by a receptive female . |
9 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
10 | Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation . |
11 | Pressed glass became fashionable in the 19th century , and it 's ideal for anyone who wants to start a collection as there are still some bargains to be found — look for it at junk shops and car-boot sales . |
12 | He rubbed his chin absently on the top of Tessa 's head , so that he could look over it at the girl . |
13 | See , see , I mean if you take a , if you take a , look at it at a point of view of |
14 | M. B. On Dock Duty , you 'd stand all night and not see a soul and the Liver Building up there with the clock gradually going round and you 'd think : ‘ I wo n't look at it , I wo n't look at it at all . ’ |
15 | The NAO did , however , look at it at my request . |
16 | You 've got to look at it at five years plus . |
17 | send the photograph and that gives me an idea whether it 's worth going to look at it at all . |
18 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
19 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
20 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |