Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these are no reasons for not looking through the accounts , and making sure that all we can give is turned to real advantage . |
| 2 | Nicky , however , had no intention of even looking for his brother in New York . |
| 3 | at the expense of actually looking at , at mainline |
| 4 | I know that I will continue to get great pleasure from simply looking at this beautiful image . |
| 5 | ‘ We made it , ’ he said and took the second gun from Mariana 's shoulders without really looking at her . |
| 6 | erm What , what we 're hoping is that erm the university 's undertaking some research to actually look at the links between very small geographic areas , postcode in fact , and ill health . |
| 7 | The majority of archaeological finds are broken , damaged or decayed , and it is usually difficult to envisage what a site looked like in its heyday by simply looking at the excavated remains . |
| 8 | To label anything , whether an idea or a person , is frequently a method of blocking inquiry , of avoiding the difficulty of actually looking for ourselves ; it is a way of shunning mental adventure . |
| 9 | Erm , we set up an investment panel of the erm , the executive committee to specifically to look in detail at our investment policy , in the light of resolution four at the nineteen eighty-seven A G M. We 've met with our investment advisors on several occasions , and we have considered our in , investment policy in some detail . |
| 10 | But , in this area of East Anglia , which of course , includes this part of Essex itself we have got quite a tidy ratio at the moment of these panels of school teachers and panels of young engineers to actually look at a national curriculum and work out some kind of erm time cycle when a young engineer could come in and actually cross the t's and dot the i's on parts which obviously the teachers do n't know about . |
| 11 | And I think what Paul wants to spend that on is bringing erm in some external consultant to actually look at models for the future , how to develop our current partnership model |
| 12 | In considering the right of the individual to know the law by simply looking at legislation , it is a fallacy to start from the position that all legislation is available in a readily understandable form in any event : the very large number of statutory instruments made every year are not available in an indexed form for well over a year after they have been passed . |
| 13 | ‘ But Karen might have her own ideas about how to look after Harry , ’ she replied . |
| 14 | ‘ For those children who get caught up in totally anti-social behaviour there is no point in just looking at the friendships . |
| 15 | But now , he entered the room without even looking at me , and took a seat with the ladies . |
| 16 | He was banging non-stop around the house all day , bellowing ‘ TELEPHONE ’ when everyone could hear it ring , sitting at the piano without even looking at the keys , and making an excruciating racket . |
| 17 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 18 | ‘ In 1988 someone would come in and spend £40 per head without even looking at the bill . |
| 19 | Audrey Two , the monster plant , expands on stage again tonight and tomorrow night at 7.30pm looking for tasty human morsels to eat . |
| 20 | It may be extremely difficult to discern when a decision-maker has ‘ commenced ’ his inquiry , and to prevent the courts from ever looking beyond the formal invocation of the finding ‘ furnished tenancy ’ is too limited . |
| 21 | ‘ We believe in educating people about how to look after dogs . |
| 22 | So get into the habit of really looking at the viewfinder picture as you line up the shot . |
| 23 | ‘ Do you realise that you have this exasperating habit of never looking at one , Edward ? ’ |
| 24 | It is clearly a new preoccupation with tragedy that explains the disproportion — tragedy and its origins : in the historically minded nineteenth century , no one with intellectual pretensions could think of an entity without also looking to its origins , however remote or obscure . |
| 25 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 26 | In the meantime , if you are prepared to travel hopefully , here is a brief guide to where to look in all the EC countries . |
| 27 | Er I think one of the greatest er causes of s absenteeism , it was n't so much ill health er not on the part of the pupil , I think it was more er if something was wrong within th family , particularly if you was an elder daughter or an elder boy , you see and erm , if your mother was ill or or confined you see , you were probably kept at home er for those sort of reasons to either look after the the younger children at home or to help to look after home . |
| 28 | Now can I explain this part over here look at this . |
| 29 | Another familiar failing of which you should be aware is the subconscious tendency of some interviewers to always look for someone who is like them and therefore to judge people on how far they match up . |
| 30 | Are these projectural figures which he showed us the cash flow chart over there looking like half a pyramid ? |