Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] look [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | And of course if you 're finding that there 's a shortfall there , then you 've got to try and look at your you know assets , your lump sum etcetera , as a way of , of erm er trying to cover that shortfall . |
2 | People are anyway going to try and look for , lo look for explanations , and it may be that , you know , in fifty or a hundred years ' time , peoples insight into , into Freud 's findings are different . |
3 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer-Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them , you know . |
4 | However , if you take characters like Lysander and Demetrius in A Midsummer Night 's Dream , it 's obvious , even to me , that it would be ridiculous to try and look for complex psychology and motivation in them . |
5 | The trick is to try and look beyond them to the interviewer and talk as though the two of you are having a personal conversation . |
6 | Most people like to try and look after their horses themselves , often with some help from the livery yard owner or a friend who has different commitments . |
7 | I stopped to try and look after him . |
8 | I bent down to try and look in the back of the Golf . |
9 | And if you 're going to try and look inside one of these things then you 're going to have to use very high energy particles , which in quantum physics means something that is very short wavelength that you can actually look inside , and when you look inside these things by , say , scattering electrons from them , very high energy electrons , it appears that inside a proton and inside a neutron is mainly again just free space , and there are other point like objects inside these particles , and these objects are know as quarks . |
10 | I used to try and look like Elvis and sing like Little Richard . |
11 | He urged Theo to come and look for himself . |
12 | After a while the other riders do n't even bother to come and look for you . |
13 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
14 | One day in 1915 he arrived in Berthe Weill 's gallery and begged her to come and look at his stone heads . |
15 | But Samantha Sherratt of the Howard League for Penal Reform said : ‘ I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo or a fishbowl . |
16 | But a spokeswoman for the Howard League for Penal Reform fumed : ‘ If I was in jail I would n't want people paying money to come and look at me as if I was in a zoo . ’ |
17 | Balbinder ran outside straight away , gesturing to me to come and look at it . |
18 | You do n't make dance for other choreographers to come and look at . ’ |
19 | There 's a nurse who sleeps in the house , and one of the lasses knocked for her to come and look at us . |
20 | If I 'm making a film of myself and I 'm on probation , at the end of the year I can pass or fail or have my probation extended because I 'm not successful enough to be called a qualified teacher , then I 'm opening myself up for people to come and look at my mistakes . |
21 | I want you to come and look at a week-old bull calf . |
22 | Because of the case , of going to court to claim compensation for James , we had to have neuroligists to come and look at James and assess him for thes claim and they have said that James is not in a persistent vegetative state . ’ |
23 | so it was a bit of er struggle to er , to get them to come and look at it and fix 'em up again , well they did n't fix 'em up they , they , they give 'em a new one , they only got it in the sale |
24 | And I , yes he came and so he says I 've got the keys to the flat he said , you do n't want to come and look at it do you ? |
25 | Dasha actually wants to come and look after Stavrogin , as actually as Svidrigailov is bored — ‘ especially now ’ , he says , as America looms . |
26 | and the police said all I have to do is phone the police and say well he wants to come and look round the property can I have a policeman there cos I do n't want |
27 | Lola kept track of patients whose personalities were as variable as the weather ( ‘ One minute Paul says he does not want his wife any more and the next he has changed his mind ’ ) , she listened to their grievances ( ‘ Josef thinks he is fit to work and look after himself ; says he is being kept a prisoner … but he is very confused and deluded ’ ) and even mediated between doctors ( ‘ Dr Freymann said … it must be a genuine case of epilepsy … but … |
28 | ‘ Lots of mothers these days manage to work and look after their children perfectly well . |
29 | We will carry out pilot projects for the ‘ foyer ’ concept , whereby young people are given a place in a hostel if in exchange they give a commitment to train and look for work . |
30 | ‘ All I want is to stand and look at you , dear boy ! ’ he said . |