Example sentences of "i look [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why am I looking for a new job ? |
| 2 | For example , if I look at a round globe then the image on my retina will be circular , and there will be no reason to suppose that the idea imprinted in my mind will be anything other than that of a flat circle . |
| 3 | When I look at a natural object for a long time , like looking into the burning embers and the flames of a fire , there appears a new vision or facet of that object or a new way of seeing it in relationship to some other world of thought . |
| 4 | In addition to classic injunctions such as ‘ I look for a marked reduction in the number of problems put forward for discussion in Ministerial Committees ’ , in the terse Major Attlee style , the paper contains a passage which is pure Brook : ‘ The Cabinet Committee system has a valuable part to play in the central machinery of government , both in relieving the pressure on the Cabinet itself and in helping to give practical effect to the principle of collective responsibility at times when the Cabinet does not include all Ministers in charge of Departments . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I look like a rough schooley , ’ she grins . |
| 6 | I look like a demented barber . |
| 7 | BELVILLE : I look like a fine puppy to suffer myself to be thus interrogated by an insolent sister . |
| 8 | I 'm only ten years older than you , and I look like an old man . |
| 9 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
| 10 | I , you know I do n't mind , I enjoy handicraft but I find I 'm out Monday playing darts , I 'm out Tuesday doing handicraft and I look after a little boy who 's got Cerebral Palsy four mornings a week and comes three in the afternoon and it 's quite a lot . |
| 11 | By now some may well be asking ‘ Where can I look for a spiritual director ? |
| 12 | Did I look like a rag-and-bone man ? |
| 13 | ‘ Come on , Wyatt Earp ’ she said , ‘ do I look like a hog-tied sheep to you ? ’ |
| 14 | But I looked to a philosophical point of view more comprehensive even than that of the early Collingwood , and I thought I had found the germ of it in the lectures he delivered in my last year on ‘ Nature and Mind ’ . |
| 15 | As I sat in front of him , I looked at a poster-sized photo which was on the wall behind him . |
| 16 | Interviewed shortly after the experience by an unknown reporter underneath the bed , she gasped : ‘ God , I was so excited , it reminded me of when I was 13 , of the first time I looked at an unwrapped tampon . |
| 17 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 18 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 19 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 20 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 21 | They were all the wrong shades for me ( for her too ) and I looked like a tired clown by the time she 'd finished , but on my previous appearance anything would have been an improvement . |
| 22 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 23 | To do my family credit , no one actually said I looked like an animated barber 's pole . |
| 24 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 25 | And squeamishness prevented me looking for a tiny insect to place on a sticky dewdrop leaf . |
| 26 | " Well , why the bloody Hell did n't you say so out there when we was with them instead of making me look like a bloody fool ? " |
| 27 | God that makes me look like a good player that , does n't it ? |
| 28 | Tommaso made me look like a mature man , an important man . |
| 29 | It 's seeing me look like an old hag first thing in the morning and not minding ! |