Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] look [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their disillusion with the reformist nature of the Labour governments of the 1960s , and the excitement generated by the world-wide social unrest of 1968 , led them to look for the possibility of social change in local protest movements . |
| 2 | Merymose asked me to look at the body . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 4 | Beryl caught him looking at a painting hanging above the mantelpiece , a portrait of a middle-aged woman of exceptional beauty . |
| 5 | Pam prepared me to look after the baby . |
| 6 | He told me to look across the moor to a place which was a bright green colour . |
| 7 | A chance visit to Blackwardine caused him to look at the map for features of interest . |
| 8 | He told her to look in the table drawer in the living-room — he thought there might be a spare drying-up cloth in it . |
| 9 | While he ate he looked through the post . |
| 10 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 11 | In 1473 the king ordered him to look into a dispute between two members of the goldsmiths ' company . |
| 12 | A few minutes later it emerged and flew off and then when it returned it looked at the wall and saw the marks and went inside . |
| 13 | ‘ Walked on the race course before breakfast the air balmy and very delightful , great numbers of the blue mountain parrots were making their morning meal on a large kind of the Eucalypti — two of the beautiful Nankeen night herons passed over our heads and we heard the curious note of the coul [ cowl ] bird or bald-headed friar — returned with an excellent appetite — drew all day — in the evening John called me to look at the skin of a snake more than six feet long which James shot in the act of ascending a tree — also brought me some beautiful specimens of a climbing plant bearing thick clusters of cream colour blossoms . ’ |
| 14 | He urged them to look to the future , to ‘ carry the spirit of Alton General on into Treloar and build on it . ’ |
| 15 | It made her look like a boy , or how boys used to look in the days when men had some self-respect and went to the barber 's . |
| 16 | The one her husband had said made her look like a Queen . |
| 17 | To my eyes this made her look like a strip-dancer at a funeral . |
| 18 | My mum was wearing a sort of large red sack and a conical hat that made her look like a gnome in a pantomime . |
| 19 | Geoff Tulloch once advanced the opinion that it made her look like an air hostess . |
| 20 | I asked her to look under the sinker plate , to see whether all the brushes and plastic gear were spinning freely . |
| 21 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 22 | The alcohol had sapped the strength out of his jaw muscles so that the skin fell in folds and made him look like a tortoise . |
| 23 | He was wearing an apron which made him look like a housewife , and tinkering with glass eyes , taking them out of a box and holding them up to the empty sockets of the dead bird , trying to find a matching pair that fitted . |
| 24 | He was a quiet man , not much given to open or abandoned laughter , mainly because he thought laughing made him look like a horse — which it did rather ! |
| 25 | In fact they made him look like a schoolboy showing off his Cadet uniform to a schoolgirl who was really more into sending her underwear to Prince or David Lee Roth . |
| 26 | That made him look like an idiot . |
| 27 | But not dropped , ’ he added with a grin which made him look like the prototype jovial monk . |
| 28 | He saw me looking at the picture and said , ‘ Kolwezi , Southern Zaire , 1978 . ’ |
| 29 | Reid saw me looking at the iron bars . |
| 30 | I thought you meant I looked like a side of beef . |