Example sentences of "look [prep] him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 2 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 3 | All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air . |
| 4 | Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room . |
| 5 | Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube . |
| 6 | He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in . |
| 7 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 8 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 9 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 10 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 11 | I look upon him as the authentic voice of the Labour party , and I want him to be heard . |
| 12 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 13 | Look at him with the bloody roll in the window ! |
| 14 | He saw his son sit up , lean forward and look at him with the wary expression that irritated him so much . |
| 15 | When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages . |
| 16 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 17 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 18 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 19 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 20 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 21 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 22 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 23 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 24 | Morse looked around him in the front living room , slightly puzzled to find the carpet , the decoration , the furniture , all that little bit on the shabby side , with only the curtains looking bright and new , and ( in Morse 's opinion ) classy and tasteful . |