Example sentences of "and look [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one suspends judgement and looks at a cross-section of these novels , one comes away quite impressed . |
| 2 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 3 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 4 | The end result , more often than not , is horrid to drive and looks like a cross between a barbeque and a plane crash . |
| 5 | It is recognized in thirty-five countries and looks like a piece of jewellery but is useful in cases of emergency . |
| 6 | I 've got to get some sleep , ’ the impresario said , eating a spoonful of caviar and looking at a column about grosses in Variety . |
| 7 | We will be looking at a wide range of candidates — you may be a new graduate , or in mid-career and looking for a change of direction , or returning to employment after a career break . |
| 8 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 9 | And looking for a solution to the growing problem of homelessness . |
| 10 | Next , intermittent or semi-continuous explosions may hurl solid material up in a dense dark mass , with the leading fragments soaring straight up into the air , trailing smaller fragments behind them , and looking from a distance like rockets . |
| 11 | Jim said , sitting on a plastic stool and looking like a husband in an ideal kitchen advertisement . |
| 12 | But the story so far : Stallone is Joe Bomowski , a cop in LA whose Mom , Tutti ( played by Estelle Getty from Golden Girls , and looking like a cross between Dr Ruth and Lucille Ball ) , comes visiting with her pet pooch from New Jersey . |
| 13 | Arriving at St. Andrew 's Hall , laden with our luggage and looking like a bunch of bemused refugees , we were ushered to our dressing room . |
| 14 | I mean , for a child to have to sit and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day — it 's totally out of order , you know . |
| 15 | The consultation process usually takes the form of a letter describing the application and inviting you to come and look at a copy of the application and any drawings submitted with it . |
| 16 | So beware of this deception , and look for a forecast with freezing levels of 3,500 metres or lower before tackling mountains with serious snow descents . |
| 17 | If we now look at the curve which shows the freon ratios in surface water and look for a ratio of two , and lining this up with the nought degree curve because we 're working with Antarctic water which of course is very cold , we can see that a ratio of two corresponds to the year nineteen fifty nine . |
| 18 | ‘ Give me time to go to the ruins and look for a sign of Harry . ’ |
| 19 | Come out of prison and look for a living in 1978 ? |
| 20 | She 's going to get a job and look for a place of her own . ’ |
| 21 | If you got into trouble you were made to sit on a chair and look at a wall for twenty-four hours a day . |
| 22 | Others draw back from legislation and look to a change in attitudes on the part of professionals and employers . |
| 23 | To discount the commentary or , worse , the story and look like a hawk at the passing background requires no little effort of concentration . |
| 24 | An opportunity to discuss the difficulty over the telephone when it arises and to look for a means of reducing the effects of the crisis is the starting point . |
| 25 | The project aims to develop a general set of answers to these questions , relevant to any metropolitan region , and to look at a set of current labour market issues in Greater London and the Outer Metropolitan region ( including West Kent . ) |
| 26 | O'Mara listened to extracts from several tape recorded interviews , read certain documents and looked through a number of previously unpublished pictures . |
| 27 | Then she opened the wardrobe and looked for a pair of high-heeled shoes . |
| 28 | Rincewind turned and looked into a pair of hairy nostrils . |
| 29 | Aj was directing the action as though he was a producer in charge of a play , and Hugh , Mike and Debby were up to their thighs in stinking lake water ; Debby was fetchingly attired in green chest waders and looked like a cross between Jeremy Fisher and a model in kinky rubberwear . |