Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I can look right over the woods and see where they are ! ’ |
| 2 | The train rattled through the suburbs , then slid between the brick backs of tall tenement blocks where Dot could look right in the windows at women standing by their kitchen sinks . |
| 3 | But in Britain Marxism still had no more than minimal adherence and we must look rather to the re-emergence of the Labour Party from a decade in the shadows , when it was riven by international faction and uncertainty over international pacifism and rearmament . |
| 4 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 5 | The tin-hatted soldiers who were sent into to quell riots on the troubled streets of Londonderry and Belfast must look enviously at the gear provided for the modern soldier . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 7 | I bear fully in mind Mr. Philipson 's salutary warning , based on statements by Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. in E.M.I . Records Ltd. v. Spillane , at p. 973 , that where the court is considering powers of a draconian nature , which gravely impinge on the citizen 's ordinary rights , the court should look jealously at the legislation , and if there is any ambiguity , resolve it in favour of existing legal rights . |
| 8 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 9 | He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face . |
| 10 | However , the particles that emerged would not look much like the astronaut . |
| 11 | Will he now look personally into the cases of some other very obvious cases of severe injuries to service men , in particular those of Mark Booth and Andy Konalyck of the Parachute Regiment and Martin Ketterick of the Royal Marines ? |
| 12 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 13 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 15 | I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’ |
| 16 | It is important to have that sort of relationship where someone can look in from the outside . ’ |
| 17 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 18 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 19 | All you have to do is look down for the B numbers , now |
| 20 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 21 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 22 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 23 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 24 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 25 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 26 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 27 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 28 | Now let's look down from the bridge . |
| 29 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 30 | Erm and I really would ask the panel on this particular issue erm to er look critically at the suggestion in P P G three , paragraph thirty three that a new settlement could upgrade areas of low landscape value . |