Example sentences of "[vb past] look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's it ; except Nina stopped looking for any knight a long time ago . ’ |
| 2 | And I think she found looking after tiny children a bit too much for her . |
| 3 | At first it appeared a good development for the island — the Germans promised to look after poor patients with tuberculosis and , in return , were given many favourable concessions such as duty-free importation of equipment and the right to expropriate land . |
| 4 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 5 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 6 | I think Stan if he 'd looked at that situation again would probably have wanted to go at the first defender an and gone and gone up the left side . |
| 7 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 8 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 9 | in a way se , he came to look at that . |
| 10 | Corratts when he came to look at black lead mine at Conistone 2s. 6d . " |
| 11 | and we came to look at this one and it had got an inner hall and in the position was |
| 12 | In the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries aristocratic society — courtly society — came to look upon sexual love , its desires and its complications , as an absorbing and fashionable subject . |
| 13 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 14 | Final days were spent in revetments on Kalaikunda airfield , 100 miles west of Calcutta , where they were used as decoys with the propellers sawn off and the tails lifted to look like tri-gear machines . |
| 15 | some proverbs , I ca n't think can you complete these proverbs good book up there for that I do n't know at all , there 's something wrong Ooh this looks really good got look at this book , all the streets it 's got like The House of Commons and The House of Lords |
| 16 | The first opportunity I got to look at this stuff is on Sunday on the library |
| 17 | There 's only one thing that struck me when I was reading through it but a as I say , we we got to look at this from point of view are we going to date this as it lies at the present moment and add to it pieces that we want , or do we start off by having the pieces o i its its now whe w w |
| 18 | Mr Mowatt agreed to look into current printer problems — three laser printers are now unable to print £ signs after installation of font cards . |
| 19 | Dr Watson agreed to look into this matter and to contact Health & Safety . |
| 20 | Above the little child hovered a large angel , luminously white , with wings made to look like burnished gold . |
| 21 | They continued to watch in stunned silence as Guy ran up the stairs and disappeared through the doorway , then turned to look at each other . |
| 22 | Discussion in the community needs to be initiated and encouraged to look at all these issues that affect women . |
| 23 | Does ‘ read ’ mean ‘ studied assiduously from cover to cover ’ or ‘ borrowed to look at one or two chapters ’ or ‘ glanced at in a library ’ ? |
| 24 | The group was given the go-ahead and began looking at all options . |
| 25 | ‘ All the time I spent looking at that portrait , probably , ’ he mused , his lips curved in a smile of satisfaction . |
| 26 | Keegan , though , declined to look beyond this afternoon 's match when he left St James 's Park with his 14-man squad yesterday . |
| 27 | Keegan , though , declined to look beyond this afternoon 's match yesterday . |
| 28 | But , taking its cue from the Flowers Report , the industry began to look with renewed vigour for somewhere to get rid of its most troublesome detritus . |
| 29 | Once it became clear that there was no possibility of raising the funds for the National Trust or English Heritage to take on the house , SAVE began to look at other options . |
| 30 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |