Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
2 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
3 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
4 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
5 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
6 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
7 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |
8 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
9 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
10 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
11 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
12 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
13 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
14 | After all , Italian midfields have been able to look after themselves over the years . |
15 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
16 | May we learn to be caring and considerate and come to look upon everyone in the world as our brothers and sisters — people whose lives might be improved through something we can offer . |
17 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
18 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
19 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
20 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
21 | Country people may well have to look to themselves in the future , and to the skills of men like Dave Dunn . |
22 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
23 | If we take wanting everybody to look at him as the ‘ real ’ reason , then the case of Stavrogin is ( in the lawyer 's phrase ) on all fours with that of the underground man 's indecent exposure of consciousness . |
24 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
25 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
26 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
27 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
28 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
29 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
30 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |