Example sentences of "[vb pp] look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sampson , like many others , had come looking for a kill before the numbers fell . |
| 2 | He had heard reports of a pirate ship in Black Hill Cove and had come looking for the pirates . |
| 3 | This time it was an inspector I who had come looking for the wing commander , his sergeant and his constable . |
| 4 | Unlike the United States Supreme Court , which can delve deep into the deliberations of the Founding Fathers to try to elucidate what was meant by a particular provision of the Constitution , British courts are not permitted to look at the proceedings of Parliament in order to determine what Parliament really meant . |
| 5 | But after 25 years loyal service with the RAF , the time has come to look at a more modern replacement . |
| 6 | She had come to look at the frescos of Sandweg , the frescos that interpreted the story of the Massacre of the Innocents — the slaughter of the male children of Bethlehem at the behest of Herod . |
| 7 | The time has come to look at the Treaty of European Union and the philosophy which lies behind it in a little more detail . |
| 8 | Mrs Heaton said : ‘ I certainly did not expect this we had come to look at the architecture . ’ |
| 9 | On the 27 January 1991 Siad Barré fled the country , and the clans embarked on the intractable conflict which has come to look like a nation intent on destroying itself . |
| 10 | It 's expected to look at the affect of the closure and what can be done about it . |
| 11 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 12 | Although former Neville men were predisposed to look to the duke , Gloucester still had to work at being a good lord in order to give substance to the relationship . |
| 13 | This study was designed to look at an array of possible influences on diabetic control in a group of diabetic patients in the community in order to identify which factors influenced glycaemic control and to quantify the relative contribution of each . |
| 14 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 15 | The programme was designed to look at the skills and knowledge needed by hospitality industry managers , at all levels in every sector of the profession , to operate successfully within Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 16 | If you could be trusted to look after the kid properly , he would n't need clothes from other people , would he ? ’ |
| 17 | The result was a system in which the government never changed hands , but instead was carried out by those who could be trusted to look after the affairs of state . |
| 18 | The cake is decorated to look like a parcel , even down to the gift tag which is edible . |
| 19 | I should have stopped looking at the pictures then , when past and present had clashed in my mind and made no meaning , but I went on . |
| 20 | I 'd also stopped looking at the sculpture . |
| 21 | The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust looked like a grave . |
| 22 | During the day he can often be seen looking like an overgrown pit pony in a thin , rather dirty New Zealand rug which has so far survived all his attempts at removal . |
| 23 | It is primarily by the spreading of awareness of foreign legal systems among our students that we can hope to accelerate the process of harmonization and to produce practitioners and judges of the future prepared to look beyond the horizon of their own legal system . |
| 24 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 25 | Life makes the worst video you 've ever seen look like a masterpiece , and the episode I 'm about to relate was well down to par in this respect . |
| 26 | Drew had never been extravagant , but he could n't see the point of parsimony for parsimony 's sake , so he had decided to look for a patron , some ignoramus who would pay him a long salary to coach him and look after his ponies . |
| 27 | Christine and Tony had decided to look for a girl of about 2 , since they felt a baby would be too much to cope with and a 2- year-old could accompany Christine to nursery school . |
| 28 | The Directorate have therefore decided to look at the whole of our service provision on a TEAM basis . |
| 29 | It dates from 1861 and was built to look like a church as , by that time , Portuguese law permitted Protestant churches to look like places of worship . |
| 30 | Well they had to get their own machines out an there 's one old boy had a stitcher , a be he looked ninety , he probably was n't , and er he was chu , it was just after lunch and he was chewing apple and old Jo , I was working with so you know , Jim someone 's I said look at the silly old B , I said ! |