Example sentences of "look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 4 | He looks through the little hammock in front of him . |
| 5 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 6 | Now to me that means that that , that city organisation must have been very doubtful about the whole future of the Maxwell organisation when it was getting to that stage , and if one looks through the , through the Writs , you know which now , now number about the same number of pages as the as the Good Report , you know you will get an er a feeling of what Maxwell was doing and how that was all all being happened and with leaving all of that with I M R O we just do n't think it 's going to er er we do n't think it would have saved the position . |
| 7 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 8 | At the Imperial War Museum , wartime historians have recreated a London street as it would have looked during the Blitz . |
| 9 | From there it looks for the infra-red ‘ signature ’ of a rocket 's exhaust . |
| 10 | It is to the Standard that one looks for the first record of all . |
| 11 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 12 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 13 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 14 | Keener looks for the right sound rather than dictating where microphones should be . |
| 15 | First he looks for the one that he likes or that matches his needs , then he sees if it fits . |
| 16 | For example , take Tokai 's notorious early '80s Fender copies : at long last , affordable , pro-quality guitars with classic looks for the impoverished working musician . |
| 17 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 18 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 19 | It looks for the new round of retrenchments to have a positive effect on 1993 profits , but ca n't forecast them . |
| 20 | Looks FOR THE 90s |
| 21 | If one looks for the perfect image of a great country seat in the Victorian novel , it is hard to better this one , seen by middle-class eyes which have no place in the picture they present to the reader : |
| 22 | He always looks for the best in people or in any given situation . |
| 23 | Looks FOR THE 90s |
| 24 | Looks FOR THE 90S |
| 25 | And that 's where engineering you know , knowledge , comes er to bear because an engineer looks for that , he looks for the easy , simplest you know er method of production er which gives him an effective er machining operation throughout the whole job . |
| 26 | The recruiter looks for the index card , and finds it is not there . |
| 27 | When the computer is trying to save a new file to a disc , it looks for the first available fragment of space , writes as much of the new file as will fit , then looks for another available fragment of space , writes a bit more , and so on until all the file is written somewhere on the disc . |
| 28 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 29 | It looks for the Highest Common Factor ( HCF ) and seeks to promote that . |
| 30 | Looks for the support of Graham and finds it . |