Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It looks like something from the planet Zog . |
| 7 | In a classroom it can give you the students ' view of the teacher , it can give you the teacher 's view of the students or it can be an observer which sits at the side of the class and looks from one to the other . |
| 8 | Howard looks from one to the other in astonishment . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 11 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 12 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 13 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 14 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 15 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 16 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 18 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 19 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
| 20 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 21 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 22 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 23 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 24 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 25 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 26 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 27 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 28 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 29 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 30 | He was looking for something along the lines of Jon Voight in Midnight Cowboy , an American from nowhere , and all the actors coming in were doing an Andrew Dice Clay or Billy Idol number . |