Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 32 | He looks up at the class . |
| 33 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 34 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 35 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 36 | The other feller looks up from the divan . |
| 37 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |
| 38 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 39 | Instead John looks back to the creation of the world … and then skips over the millenia to the ministry of John the Baptist and to Jesus , as an adult . |
| 40 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 41 | The third film , ‘ Waiting with Xavier — Glimpses of the Church in South China ’ , looks back to the arrival of Christianity in China 400 years ago , through St Francis Xavier , and explores the current life of the Catholic Church in Guangdong Province , South China . |
| 42 | Again , one looks back to the nineteenthcentury origins of English literary studies , when the first pioneers and missionaries , men such as Morley and Furnivall , travelled all over the country to talk about English literature in adult education classes and working men 's clubs . |
| 43 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 44 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 45 | Located in the centre of Birmingham , it looks back to the city 's rich heritage with its colourful canalside setting ; and forward to a dynamic future through its direct link with the International Convention Centre and renowned Symphony Hall . |
| 46 | Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood . |
| 47 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 48 | Across the waters , the magnificent Peter and Paul Fortress looks back at the shoreline . |
| 49 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
| 50 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |
| 51 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 52 | Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony . |
| 53 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 54 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 55 | The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 56 | Grant Simons presents a view of the inside of the North American XB-70 Valkyrie at the USAF Museum and looks back into the type 's turbulent past |
| 57 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 58 | Section 9(4) , which operates at the time of the application for an order under the Act , looks back towards the time in relation to which the witness would give evidence if an order was made and not forward to the time at which he would do so . |
| 59 | How 's the old seaweed ? and Bet you have n't looked out of the window lately ! |
| 60 | When she had eventually plucked up her courage and looked out of the window , she had been entranced by the views from the carriage and the speed of travel . |