Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 3 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I believe tobacco-smoke is the most effectual , but to one not a smoker it would require to be a case of hiring another to the office of smoking away the midges — a work many would gladly undertake , for tobacco is looked on in the Highlands as a very great good , almost as essential as the whiskey . |
| 7 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 8 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 9 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 10 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 16 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 23 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 24 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 25 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
| 29 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 30 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |