Example sentences of "[noun sg] he look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth .
2 A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells .
3 From that moment he looked after the rose garden and when the war came he said , ‘ Look here , if we get through this all right , we 'll make a garden together . ’
4 But when he put it on , for a moment he looked like a prince .
5 On a good day he looked like a mixture of Rod Stewart , Steve Jones and Buddy Holly .
6 He was on his feet now , turning up his collar , pulling the tie around his neck the while he looked towards the house .
7 As he stepped back into the circle of dimming green light issuing from the door of the transmat booth he looked for a moment like some bizarre demon that Francis had summoned .
8 To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory .
9 Struck by a thought he looked over the street , where the gaslights were being lighted .
10 The McLaggans had put grass halters round the necks of a few of Menzies ' horses ; Cameron rode on one ; from the back in his dark coat he looked like a preacher leading away the faithful to a field communion .
11 He neatly propped a chair in front of the door and went back about his business , but awareness of him tingled all around Charity — awareness of the way he moved , with such effortless grace , of the way he looked with the wind ravaging his neat curls .
12 Pushing the hair from his face he looked at the bedside clock .
13 On his right , Doyle 's pale blue eyes were steady under the black hair , his face doubly familiar and hated because Tug saw something very like it every time he looked into the mirror .
14 He was still suffering from blackheads and other rash problems which jolted his vanity every time he looked in the mirror .
15 Buttons was played by a young Tommy Steele and Ken was Portia , a sister so ugly that he almost frightened himself every time he looked in the mirror .
16 so every time he looks in the mirror he 'll know
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