Example sentences of "look [prep] him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 4 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 5 | Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Cathy was looking past him into the studio . |
| 8 | " Er — Hazel , " said Hawkbit , looking past him into the face of the dreary , black cliff . |
| 9 | Towards the end of the soirée , Eliot stood for a while by himself in a seemingly abstracted state , and , looking at him across the room , I could not decide whether he was looking in my direction or not . |
| 10 | The Prime Minister can not stand Enoch Powell 's steely and accusing eye looking at him across the table any more , and I 've had to move him down the side . ’ |
| 11 | But there was something forced about his gaiety now , and Breeze , looking at him across the table , felt again that sharp pang of uncertainty . |
| 12 | Zack was standing on the road by the driver 's open door , looking at him across the roof of the car . |
| 13 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 14 | Jannie lay in bed , looking at him over the edge of the covers . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 16 | She made the mistake of looking at him as the thought formed in her mind , and had to suppress a gasp of awareness as she met his gaze . |
| 17 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 18 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 19 | We would alert Australia … look for him round the world . |
| 20 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 21 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 22 | In his responsiveness to temporal processes he differed from many of his contemporaries and we can look upon him as the forerunner in literature of those , like Spenser and Shakespeare in the late sixteenth century , who were greatly concerned with the irreversible effects of time on the human mind and Spirit . |
| 23 | Lawrence watched Todorov in training and declared : ‘ We 'll look at him in the reserves against Derby and take it from there . ’ |
| 24 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 25 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 26 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 27 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 28 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 29 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 30 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |