Example sentences of "look [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look for the clues and then chase them . ’ |
| 2 | Look through the books and patterns you have , see what 's available at your local knitting centre , perhaps send for that book you never bought earlier and have a really fun time with the wealth of designs from Iris Bishop or Wendy Phillips or whoever you like best . |
| 3 | One of England 's finest DJs , Lisa Loud , summed it all up by saying , ‘ Look between the ears and see the brain , that is what is important . ’ |
| 4 | Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves . |
| 5 | However , in order to sway you over to their way of thinking , Peterson might paraphrase the old adage and say , ‘ Look after the cents and the dollars will take care of themselves … ’ |
| 6 | ‘ DOES the personal scheme look after the wife and kids ? |
| 7 | He explained his philosophy : ‘ It 's a nasty brutal world and the only morals I 've got are : be proud ; get what you can ; look after the wife and family and fuck everybody else . ’ |
| 8 | Well I just look after the ponies and |
| 9 | Animal lovers and green fingered volunteers are needed to help the new trust look after the flora and fauna in and around Darlington . |
| 10 | My boyfriend said he would stay at home and be the househusband and look after the children and do co co , the cleaning and cooking if I stayed at work . |
| 11 | Mrs Aggie gave her a shilling a week , because , as she said , she was her assistant ; for there must be someone to hold the horse and look after the cart and see that the children did n't nick … steal the clothes off it . |
| 12 | Its staff of 60 to 70 look after the design and construction of Lothian 's roads . |
| 13 | Look after the twins and try to make sure they negotiate the reefs of puberty and adolescence , set them up to make their way in the world , and do so without becoming just like me … |
| 14 | Look past the buildings and you will see buildings in the background or on the horizon that you did n't know existed . |
| 15 | The plot may not be the simplest and most direct piece of story-telling that Hofmannsthal gave to strauss — but look below the surface and investigate the symbols . |
| 16 | ‘ Mark , ’ said his manager , Andrew Chandler , ‘ comes across as a chaotic character but look beneath the surface and he 's thoroughly well organised . ’ |
| 17 | Likewise the romance of the cinema in our younger days is recalled in ‘ Casablanca ’ — but look behind the lyrics and their wider application becomes apparent . |
| 18 | However , by s 6 of the 1907 Act , a limited partner may by himself or his agent at any time inspect the books of the firm and look into the state and prospects of the partnership business , and may advise with the partners thereon . |
| 19 | We look into the records and another question emerges . |
| 20 | But you tend to think that 's what a girl should look like — blonde hair and blue eyes — and then you look in the mirror and you 've got short Afro hair , and that 's when you maybe start thinking that 's the only way to be . |
| 21 | Pretty much on what the lady 's saying , surely if you get up in the morning and you look in the mirror and you do n't like what you see and you apply some make up and you feel better , or you hate your nose so you have it , you know altered , surely if it makes you feel good then why not ? , if you 've got the money and its not harming any one then go for it . |
| 22 | For a few seconds , she regarded the coatstand with its disfigured mirror , and then , creasing her brow in bewildered concentration , she thought : If I look in the mirror and do n't see myself , then I 'm a ghost . |
| 23 | Then I look in the mirror and think : ‘ You 're not Miss World , kiddo ’ , and I thank God that someone did n't determine that my appearance did n't come up to scratch . |
| 24 | They are becoming a lot more common , yes when you look in the report and accounts there are far , far more of these deferred pensioners there than er than ever used to exist and it 's something which I must admit we have n't given a lot of thought to yet , but it 's something because it 's growing that we will have to address erm in our federation , we will have to address that problem . |
| 25 | this chap with his book he says watch out of it George it burns you , look in the corner and get your torch , you know , maybe you 're going to an antique place |
| 26 | I mean I know there 's always an argument , especially here in Oxford , that people just come , look round the colleges and they 're gone again , but having said that some of them must spend some money . |
| 27 | They are the executive body , and the national assembly is the people of the Kuwait , and fifty members are directly elected by the people through the twenty constituencies which we have , and you have here the legislative body , in other words a parliament of fifty members and the government , and they sit together and they run the business of the country like any other parliament , and if you look to the television and see what happens in the House of Commons , it is exactly what happens in Kuwait . |
| 28 | So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty . |
| 29 | The Recommendations look to the future and describe what the author of the report thinks should be done about the problem that has been the subject of so much investigation . |
| 30 | Disraeli Gears from Tesside are rather different as they look to the energy and rawness of the Sixties rather the dull produced stomp of Nineties ' heavy rock/ metal . |