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Example sentences of "[pron] look [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1	And I gets this one out and I 'm reading through it and I looks at the name John , and then I began to take an interest in it and , here I discovered that my grandfather and my great grandfather that 's like my grandfather and my grandmother 's father
2	I said read the bloody words then and she said oh I never read the words she said I looks at the pictures .
3	It 's a bit like asking why someone looks at the sky or watches the sunset . ’
4	There 's j I looked in the phone book , there is only
5	Why am I looking for a new job ?
6	I also wondered — I was only seven — if the fire had anything to do with Alf Norris and I looking into the boiler room the day before !
7	For if we suppose this we shall fall into an infinite regress ; we shall find ourselves looking for a further interpretation .
8	If we examine what it is one participant is ready to see that other participants might read into a situation and what it is that will cause him to provide ritual remedies , followed by relief for these efforts , we find ourselves looking at the central moral traditions of Western culture .
9	‘ You do n't ride any horse of mine looking like a scarecrow .
10	The fact that we may have no reason to say of someone looking at a blue flower that it looks blue to him does not mean that it does not look blue to him .
11	Someone looking after a partner or relative with Alzheimer 's disease — or senile dementia as it is also known — has particular problems .
12	He did n't know what Lewis meant about someone looking after the house but no doubt he , Adam , had at the time concocted some tale to keep his father quiet , to keep him away even .
13	I look down the other side of the island on to tall fields of barley , stands of eucalyptus .
14	When I look towards the Merchiston Castle here , I wonder what John Napier who lived here from 1550 to 1627 would have said could he see us today .
15	Sometimes I look through the catalogue at the men 's clothes , or wander into shops like Principles and look at the menswear .
16	I look through the crowd at the steep stairs to the upper office .
17	I look through the letter-box but I ca n't see anything ; I reach in and feel a box on the far side of the thick door .
18	I look through the window — the streets , the sky the colour of wet sugar — and I am simply stumped by this , dumbfounded , non-plussed .
19	I look through the blinds .
20	The undercut cave is dark and mysterious but the lightness of the sandy bottom becomes apparent as I look across the bend , the water becoming shallower as I scan across to the inside of the bend .
21	Our square red-brick house stands some 100 yards away ( as I look into the Sun ) with its french windows open .
22	I stay in bed and pluck at the counterpane and listen to the winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity and the wolves of evil baying down the void , and I look into the darkness . ’
23	Could you carry on here while I look into the shipping side of things ? "
24	Some snatch of verse from a Jacobean tragedy flashed through his mind : ‘ When I look into the fishponds in my garden , methinks I see a thing , armed with a rake , that seems to strike at me . ’
25	As a member in business , I look on the Institute 's failure to address the problem of conflicts between the two roles with concern .
26	Sometimes this was stated explicitly , as by a physiotherapist : ‘ I look on the disability as being the overall diagnosis … to me the children have got a disability , i.e. spina bifida , cerebral palsy , to me that 's the disability .
27	DENNING L.J. : I look on the father 's letter as dealing with two things .
28	‘ At present I look to the judiciary for advice on the time to be served to satisfy the requirements of retribution and deterrence and to the Parole Board for advice on risk .
29	I look to the TV , the video recorder .
30	I look to the current discussions , and also to the United States , to give the ground that is needed .