Example sentences of "look on [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 2 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 4 | Blanche feels that the only way that she will be able to marry Mitch is if he looks on her as someone still young . |
| 5 | But once more , in the words of the song , " it was a nice tiddley ship and the skipper looks on her with pride " . |
| 6 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 7 | Helmets and unbelted tunics were for the despised ‘ county men ’ , ‘ those sheep-dippers up the road in the sticks ’ whom we continually used to reassert our own status by looking on them as ‘ hicksville country cousins ’ and definitely not ‘ real polises ’ . |
| 8 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 9 | Rome looking on them as a devoted couple . |
| 10 | ‘ I was looking on you as my date tonight . ’ |
| 11 | But in the real world , where most of us enjoy our horses and look on them as part of the family , pony power can really score . |
| 12 | You look on Him as a father telling you what to do . ’ |
| 13 | I have been a manager long enough to know the fans only look on me as a punch bag , constantly on the end of the verbal one-two . |
| 14 | But the union just look on us as if we are employed by them . |
| 15 | Wrens rarely get a real ship , you see , and some of the old hands look on us as intruders , to say the least . |
| 16 | I look on it as a work of God . |
| 17 | Although this involves the use of rather advanced techniques compared with the running of simple transfers and dubs , many enthusiasts believe that this type of editing is essential to the making of ‘ real ’ movies , and look on it as the key creative element in their video activities . |
| 18 | Obviously many look on it as a significant occasion which is very , very flattering ’ . |
| 19 | I look on it as home . |
| 20 | Look on it as an extra bit of security for all that money you 've invested in the station . |
| 21 | Look on it from a medical angle if you like , as a cure for an ailment . ’ |
| 22 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
| 23 | They 'd say : " We look on you as part of the family — we feel we know you so well . " |
| 24 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 25 | The disasters that befell his army paradoxically heightened his personal charisma : even the barons of Outremer continued to look on him as their one potential saviour . |
| 26 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 27 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 28 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 29 | Do n't be tempted to look on it as anything permanent . ’ |
| 30 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |