Example sentences of "his [noun] look [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 'll never get that , ’ said Gazzer flatly , heaving himself to his knees to look over the edge . |
| 2 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 3 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 4 | Kopyion sat at his desk looking at the major . |
| 5 | She gave an extra piece of meat to Noah , then told Oliver to hurry up as it was his job to look after the shop . |
| 6 | His black eyes flickered , and he drew the monk over by his sleeve to look at the pageant more closely . |
| 7 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 8 | He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned , whilst his wife looked after the Post Office . |
| 9 | Mr Brocklebank , who had been sent by his wife to look at the house , reported back . |
| 10 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 11 | He turned his head to look at the mantelpiece . |
| 12 | I helped with the cows and the chickens , and went up on the hills with Mr Parks and his dog to look at the sheep . |
| 13 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 14 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 15 | His tendency to look after the moment at the expense of the momentum can be a hindrance ; his thoroughness occasionally leans towards fussiness — and Janáček can sound too beautiful . |
| 16 | He said yesterday that as Mr Dignum spent most of his time looking after the stores , which include the troubled Silo chain in America , the move ‘ reflects the reality of the situation which has existed for some time ’ . |
| 17 | He got his brother to look after the bar for an hour or so , bundled Maidstone into a taxi driven by a friend of his and set off for Maidstone 's apartment in the Vomero . |
| 18 | Which the authorities could not understand , because everyone knew that at lunchtime Mr Wolski always went down to the benches by the Cages and ate his sandwiches looking at the eagles . |