Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've looked for you for hours , ’ he said , anxious , I thought , to prove I had n't been forgotten . |
| 3 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 4 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 5 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 6 | We grew up together , I 've looked after her by myself from when she was two , which was when I split up from her father . |
| 7 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 8 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 9 | Oh yes , he ditched Graham who 's looked after him for over ten years through thick and thin , and mainly thin , in favour of Mike Martinez . ’ |
| 10 | That bastard Harley dumped me after I 'd looked after him for nearly ten years . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's hope so , ’ she said , and told them that her parents were furious because Josh , her grandmother 's lodger , had left all his money and possessions to Kate and not even mentioned her grandmother who had looked after him for years . |
| 12 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 13 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 14 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 15 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 16 | Formerly the collection of the Greater London Council , the 5,000-piece strong holding ( give or take a few balusters ) is now the property of English Heritage , curated by Mr Treve Rosoman who has looked after it since its days with the GLC . |
| 17 | Ah yes I have looked after it for ever since it was new and er and it was the one that reopened the station after the boat 's lost here , but as I say you 've got to look forward and I think it 's a good idea to have a new boat here . |
| 18 | If he had been absent I would have looked upon it as something of a hollow victory . |
| 19 | ‘ I have always looked upon you as ‘ Theo ’ . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 21 | Of course Francis had thought about it as something that was inevitable , and he had plans , but they had never seemed very real and he had looked on them as castles in the air . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 23 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 24 | But she had linked arms with Len because she was so glad that he was next to her , between her and that boy who had looked at her as if , well as if she was indecently dressed or something . |
| 25 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 26 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 27 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 28 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 29 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 30 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |