Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 2 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ She 's only seven years older than me and so I 've never looked on her as a mother figure . |
| 9 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 10 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 11 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 14 | Crown of thorns looks to us like a plague ; a disease of the reef . |
| 15 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 16 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 17 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 18 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 19 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 22 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 25 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 26 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 27 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 28 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 29 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 30 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |