Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 10 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 15 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 16 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 17 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 20 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 21 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 22 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 23 | Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land . |
| 24 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
| 25 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 26 | ‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely . |
| 27 | ‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword . |
| 28 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 29 | " Er — Hazel , " said Hawkbit , looking past him into the face of the dreary , black cliff . |
| 30 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |