Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 3 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 4 | Now , for the first time … they are asked to look upon it as a question of human nature , of equal interest to men and women , as a question of the heart , the soul , the affections , the whole moral being . |
| 5 | It began to look to him like a conspiracy . |
| 6 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 7 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 8 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 9 | The clarifying question is : " Is this really a problem or am I just choosing to look at it as a problem ? " |
| 10 | The simplest approach is to look at it as a device that moves your weight up and down the board . |