Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 2 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 3 | TEACHERS of young children are being looked on by the Government as ‘ not a lot more than well-disciplined child-minders , ’ a senior Belfast education adviser claimed today . |
| 4 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 5 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 6 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 7 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 8 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 9 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 10 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 11 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 12 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 13 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 14 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 15 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 16 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 17 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 18 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 19 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
| 20 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 21 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 22 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 23 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 24 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 25 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 26 | Companies tend to use a ‘ firewall ’ along their route into Internet so that individuals can not be looked up in the directory of users — a sort of ex directory . |
| 27 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 28 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 29 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 30 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |