Example sentences of "look [adv prt] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PETER HARTLAND looks down the corridors of history and produces what he sees as the supreme England one-day team |
| 2 | I had looked up the directions for the Pan-Am Highway at the hotel . |
| 3 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 4 | Chalk greeted them and supplied them with beer but , as they drank , they found themselves looking down the barrels of a dozen pistols ! |
| 5 | By the beginning of the third week , Charlie could only just fit his swollen toes into the heavy leather boots the army had supplied him with , but looking down the rows of feet that adorned the barrack room floor each morning he could see that none of his comrades was any better off . |
| 6 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |
| 7 | This involved looking up the ailments common to exotic animals in order to be prepared for any searching questions by the proprietor . |
| 8 | He found himself looking up the skirts of a girl dancing by , and he rolled across the floor in an attempt to keep up with her . |
| 9 | For example , using a good etymological dictionary , try looking up the origins and spelling changes in words like : ache delight ghost guest health ( and whole , hale ) island thought Changes in place names are particularly interesting , because they demonstrate clearly the way in which spelling does not determine pronunciation , but so often limps along behind . |
| 10 | So er we achieved something there , even if it you know it it put the frighteners up the chap , police looking out the windows and you know , saw our reaction when the police turn up , it makes them think again . |
| 11 | Look along the sections of the tables and match the main features of the case with the features of the remedies . |
| 12 | Look along the rows of machinery at any farm show and you 'll see a lot of professionally-made equipment . |
| 13 | Look along the rows of blocks of holes ( marked stitches ) longer than three stitches — if the design has these it will not be suitable for weaving . |
| 14 | Ambleside , and , if Mrs. Marshall be not yet arrived at Headingley , I beg you will be so kind as to open it , and look over the Books . |
| 15 | Then quietly the butler would give us the down ; and we used to slip in the stairs and look over the banisters and see all the ladies going into the dining-room — which was a great thrill . |
| 16 | I live on the banks of the Lea and I can not properly tell the House what an amazing joy it is to wake up every morning and look over the marshes . |
| 17 | You can look up the sections in the library . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , I 'll look up the books he 's written at the college library and take a couple out , ’ said Loretta airily . |
| 19 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 20 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 21 | Now , while you go and dry those eyes , I 'll look up the trains . ’ |
| 22 | I can remember stuff they thought too petty for Trivial Pursuit and then somedays I have to look up the instructions on my bootlaces . |
| 23 | After our return from France we felt that we still did not have the complete story of that operation , and so we went to the Public Records Office at Kew to look up the records of 22 Squadron over that period . |
| 24 | Well marketing could be sorts of things , it could be doing exhibitions which you 've talked about , it could be erm , mail shots , it could be looking , going down the library to do , to look up the electoral role , to look up the names of people . |
| 25 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 26 | Of course there is no advantage in this method if you have to look up the hooks . |
| 27 | In doing this , the system may have to combine and manipulate information from a number of different sources : the operator specifies the letters and clauses to be used ; the system fills out certain details from the data base ; in some cases it may have to do such things as take the salary and location from the data base , look up the conditions for that location , find out that certain uplifts need to be applied to salary , perform the arithmetic and insert the answers in the appropriate places in the text . |
| 28 | Try to find a book on additives ( there may be one in your local library ) and look up the names and functions of the following : E110 , E153 , E162 , E222 , E331 , E410 , E414 , E621 , E460 |
| 29 | If they did look out the sentries had orders to fire on them , which they did from time to time although no one was ever injured . |
| 30 | Look around the remains . |