Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] [noun] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She left him there , and went to have a bath : dressed briskly , went downstairs to inspect the damage , had a coffee , looked at her list for the day . |
| 2 | Younger neighbours may be glad to ‘ sit in ’ for one evening a week too , if you can give them some service in return , such as looking after their child for a morning while they go shopping , although of course there are people who will help with no expectation of reward , if you make your need known to them-perhaps more of them than you imagine . |
| 3 | What is the point of only taking what you need and looking after your resources for the future , if they are simply going to be swiped by somebody else ? |
| 4 | This was all happening while I was walking through the bus station and taking my place in the queue ; and when I gained my seat I began looking in my bag for a piece of paper and a biro , and then , on the inside of a chocolate-bar wrapping I wrote what I must memorize and recite if I were to get the message over to the doctor — I , who even made heavy weather of describing a sore throat ; I , who after a period in the waiting-room could dry up so as to be virtually dumb . |
| 5 | He went on looking at his hands for a moment . |
| 6 | Not the ideal circumstances in which to hire someone who is to look after your children for a couple of years or more … ’ |
| 7 | It 's one thing to leave your children with a couple you know and trust , but quite another to have a man you only know through a babysitting circle look after your children for an evening . |
| 8 | If you smoke , give it up ; vow to think first before buying anything expensive ; and look at your finances for the future — will you be secure when you 're older ? |
| 9 | ‘ If Mrs Earley or her granddaughter would care to make contact we will certainly look at her application for a move . ’ |
| 10 | The foregoing chapters will , it is hoped , form a sufficient background and we may now begin to look at their implications for the social worker and for the social work profession . |
| 11 | Bridget looked after her son for the first eighteen months before getting a job so he recognises her as his mother , whereas it could be quite easy for a baby to start calling its grandmother " Mum " . |
| 12 | Gabriel looked into her face for a long time . |
| 13 | After the punchline had been delivered and the ensuing laughter had died away , the blonde swayed away from the bar and looked in their direction for the first time . |
| 14 | While Diana looked to her husband for a lead and guidance , the way the press and public reacted to the royal couple merely served to drive a wedge between them . |
| 15 | Loretta took out her diary , and looked at her schedule for the week . |
| 16 | She looked at her watch for the fourth time in two minutes . |
| 17 | He turned on the guards who held Harry between them , and looked at his prisoner for a few minutes in silence . |
| 18 | Llewelyn turned from the harness that was being checked out of the armoury , and looked at his foster-son for a moment from so far away and by so dazzling a light that he seemed hardly to know him . |
| 19 | Jake looked at his watch for the hundredth , maybe the five hundredth time . |
| 20 | James looked at his back for a full minute , then asked , ‘ Are you wishing it was like that here — fires on the hill ? ’ |