Example sentences of "looking [prep] it [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They was looking for it on a list . |
| 2 | I realise now that we were trying to find an interest for ourselves and had done the classic thing of looking for it in a new environment which actually involved more adjustment and less ease than if we had stayed where we were . |
| 3 | Well you 'll be looking for it in a bit wo n't you ? |
| 4 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 5 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 6 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 7 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 8 | Similarly in the Middle East the Americans , while valuing the British presence ( notably the base at Suez ) , were looking beyond it to a more comprehensive defence system . |
| 9 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 10 | We were looking across it at a slice-shaped building , calcined with pollution . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now Summerchild has mentioned it , I believe I remember looking at it during the long silences in my conversations with Millie . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Leaving aside for the moment the nature of teachers ' particular educational philosophy , I now wish to move from describing the predicament from the outside , so to speak , to looking at it through the eyes and feelings of teachers themselves . |
| 15 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 16 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 17 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 18 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
| 19 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
| 20 | You may well find , on looking at it again , that there are various elements that you want to change , and it is much easier to take an objective view of your work if you are looking at it with a fresh eye . |
| 21 | Now having said that and looking at it with an open mind I think it was certainly a very useful day . |
| 22 | I picked up the crumpled cheque and spread it out , looking at it with the sort of hopeless hunger with which one admires things in the window of Fortnum & Mason . |
| 23 | I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I think on that , looking at it on a logical basis , er , I think our stuff will take up one third of the boot |
| 26 | If higher education is not an end , not an output , it may be worth looking at it as a process : a process which plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of gender difference . |
| 27 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 28 | And er that er very often the criminal fraternity are looking at it as a ways and means of getting out of coming to court . |
| 29 | Wah , urgh , I tried to argue the point at appeal , erm , if you look up the listing for these properties , er , in the area which back onto the mill stream , it 's all the grounds are listed because it says quite clearly , that in the opinion of , they form a group , and it was one of the reasons which I 'm glad you , well as you can see , this piece of ground is part of a listing , and although this existing permission , we 're looking at it as a clean site , tonight , we 're not looking at what has been passed . |
| 30 | There 's no excuse for that and if we 're er having as one of our major platforms of our business initiative 's quality , then er the quality must be right one hundred per cent all the time er so I was somewhat bothered that we were an an disappointed I suppose that we did n't get high ratings in the quality control reviews which were carried out , so to that end we were make make sure the next time we came round with a better score er so er we are looking at what 's called hot reviews which is looking at er an audit for example before it 's finalised by somebody completely independent of the job carrying out a technical review of the way in which tha that audit has been conducted er we are looking at it after the jobs been finished and probably in the slack season in the summer get people to actually review as if they were doing a dry quality control review of the job er prior to us getting an external review er carried out . |