Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 2 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 3 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 4 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 5 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 6 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 7 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 8 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 9 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
| 10 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 11 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |
| 12 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 13 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 14 | But in Jamaica at the time , there were no facilities for kids , just for professional fighters , so I just used to look at them through the fence , sparring and punching the bag . |
| 15 | Woodlice feed mainly at night , so to see them actually feeding you need to look at them during the evening . |
| 16 | ‘ I was hoping to look at them on the plane , but they were at the bottom of the pile and I never got around to it . ’ |
| 17 | She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse . |
| 18 | He turned to look at me across the studio . |
| 19 | This is available if anyone wants to look at it during the course . |
| 20 | Or , to look at it from the child 's point of view , the words the adult uses will be interpreted in the light of the forms of social understanding which have already been forged non-verbally . |
| 21 | You are only looking at it from our point of view though are n't you , I mean they , they 're going to look at it from the point of view that they can possibly obtain sixteen zero zero fours , although they 'd obviously like to get them cheaper , but at a price that makes the the overall package that contains that bearing and a six eight O seven cheaper than than the package that we would like them to use which inc would incorporate six zero zero fours , and er whatever after . |
| 22 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |