Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would alert Australia … look for him round the world . |
| 2 | Listen for them on radio and television and look for them in the newspaper . |
| 3 | ’ The criminals look for you amid the filth and decadence of this world , . |
| 4 | Having found the appropriate class number from the card , look for it in the subject or classified catalogue and flick through the cards of that particular number . |
| 5 | Look for it in the carpentry section . |
| 6 | Anyway you then look through it with the solution in and you 'll find that if , for example , you started off with it completely dark you 'll find it 's then grey cos the plane of light 's been rotated , now it 's where there was no light getting through now some of it is actually getting through , cos it 's been rotated . |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you look after them on the journey and buy them sweets and comic books for the train . ’ |
| 8 | The researchers meet the guests first , and generally look after them from the time they arrive to the time they leave . |
| 9 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
| 10 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 11 | All the same , if we turn the figures about and look at them from the point of view of the older generation themselves , we still find that in early modern England only 10 per cent of sixty-year-olds were living with their married children or grandchildren . |
| 12 | I mostly just look at mine from the window ; I 've got to know the walnut tree over a whole year now . |
| 13 | Perhaps the deep concern of the horsemen to keep their high standard of work even in the ordinary day-to-day ploughing can best be understood when we look at it against the background of a practice that was once common in many parts of Suffolk . |
| 14 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 15 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 16 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 17 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 18 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 19 | But the , the reason why that 's true maybe , might n't it , that if you look at it from the child 's point of view , the crying is a , is a signal it 's sending to its parent . |
| 20 | In going through this document , look at it from the viewpoint of the buyer as well as your own client , and if the buyer 's conveyancer has made any slip or omission , put it right ; you may yourself one day be grateful for a similar courtesy . |
| 21 | It is an odd building , when you look at it from the front , because it is very asymmetrical . |
| 22 | She would survey him coldly with eyes that spat venom — Look at you with the gimp of an old scarecrow on you , they would say . |