Example sentences of "to look at [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A lot of humans had been in to look at him in the last few minutes . |
| 3 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 4 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most studies of social services , however , tend to look at them from the historical or development view . |
| 10 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 11 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 12 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 13 | Having established the ICAEW 's position in the listed market , we decided to extend our work to look at which of the bodies regulated the auditors of large unlisted organisations . |
| 14 | Take the time to look at yourself in the mirror and recognise the improvements . |
| 15 | Every morning , the first thing Narcissus did when he woke up was to look at himself in the mirror . |
| 16 | That was the psychological moment : but she also remembered another , a turning-point in physical ageing , ‘ when I began to hate to look at myself in the glass . ’ |
| 17 | She deliberately refused to look at herself in the strategically placed mirror . |
| 18 | She made Terry try it on , take it off , changed something else , and finally , at gone midnight , she had done all that she could do , and only then did she allow Terry to look at herself in the mirror . |
| 19 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 20 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 21 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
| 22 | Or to look at it from the social point of view — he 's just one man among many , the loss would be well within reason and convenience . |
| 23 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 24 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 25 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |