Example sentences of "have [verb] to look [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It came on suddenly — Charles has gone to look at this new sewing-factory equipment at some place in Wales … |
| 2 | With over half the British labour force by then state-employed , whether directly or indirectly , competitive private enterprise in a dynamic style inspired by Japan , West Germany and the United States had come to look to many , and with some reason , like a radical option . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've got this Unesco thing coming on — oh , here are the Fairfaxes , ’ he declared , as the door opened to admit a tall middle-aged man and an even taller woman , obviously husband and wife , who had grown to look like each other in a rather unfortunate way , their small heads and long stringy bodies seeming as if they must have combined the worst features of each . |
| 4 | You 've got to look at all the angles . ’ |
| 5 | Erm basically we 've spent more than we 've erm taken in but that was a deliberate policy agreed on by the committee we 've already mentioned Norman 's flats erm that has been a most worthwhile expenditure and we 've got to look at that as a long-term investment because we 've got flats which are going to last for years and our expenditure which was getting on for fifteen hundred pounds will not have to be repeated . |
| 6 | if you float you 'll stay at the top , some people can float and they do n't need arm bands , they stay at the top and if you sink they go to the bottom , now we 've got to look at these things look and we 've got to decide whether we think they 're gon na float , stay on the top or whether they 're going to sink and go to the bottom , now then what 's this here ? |
| 7 | yes , we we 've got to look at this in in in in the assessment er procedures as well but we 've go we 've got to try and link this up with er the the the computer work that we 're doing erm we we 've got I I I think really we we should have possibly a reasonably hefty session one evening next week to say right , how are we going to put this into practice ? |
| 8 | So I think you 've got to look at this as er saying well , if you get external advice , at least you 're covered and er I mean er if a , if a company 's in difficulties , we perhaps would know before you would , erm that erm you know that we should n't really be investing with them . |
| 9 | Right , so you cross this out and now you 've got to look for another word |
| 10 | No Anthony 's still eating darling , right , now that word there says Doc , D O C which is the name of one of the dwarfs , okay , so in all them letters there is the name Doc , so you 've got to look for those three letters D O C alright , so you go along , no let me show you how to do it then . |
| 11 | However , how it is going to look like is going to depend after when we go back , when the system of government gets organised and then we 've got to look into this whole idea of how to live in Kuwait , which I am sure will be open to changes , to modifications , and anything is possible . |
| 12 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 13 | I 've started to look at this and want to explore it in greater depth . |
| 14 | She had started to look for another job , as it seemed that it would be possible to sell the shop within the next few weeks . |
| 15 | I had begun to look on that photograph as a mascot for my enterprise . |
| 16 | You have got to look past that . |
| 17 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 18 | Cover , it cover it up just in case Kelly 's tempted to look over that way . |
| 19 | We have chosen to look at these through the medium of Palatine Ales , the company we introduced you to in the previous case . |
| 20 | I have chosen to look at these two particular books because both struck me as very vivid accounts of what the authors foresee in the future and they tackle primarily the serious repercussions of the dehumanisation of man . |