Example sentences of "look [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel .
7 ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball .
8 I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ( Jockeys do not often look backwards at the beginning of a race . )
12 By definition they do not look backwards at the kinds of demographic transformations with which various societies have already coped .
13 To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best .
14 Let us look further at the role of tone-unit boundaries , and the link between the tone-unit and units of grammar .
15 So perhaps we should look harder at the plants we keep with out fish .
16 This final section will look concisely at the construction of north Korea between 1945 and the beginning of 1948 .
17 Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position .
18 At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now .
19 I did n't look up at the sky .
20 He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator .
21 I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights .
22 Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively .
23 Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more .
24 We will all look carefully at the conclusions that it draws from its work and from the evidence submitted to it .
25 Most haulage businesses will probably look carefully at the prospects in Europe when reviewing new market potential .
26 Mr. Speaker : I shall look carefully at the speech of the Secretary of State .
27 A Scottish Prison Service spokesman said it would look carefully at the recommendations .
28 All investors must look carefully at the safety of any offshore investment as protection arrangements may be less rigorous than in the UK .
29 Let us look now at the number of designers due for retirement between 1982–1992 ( see figure 9 ) .
30 If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner .
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