Example sentences of "[verb] n't look [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look , ’ he said , ‘ I thought — any man would have thought — that if I did n't look for knowledge , good family , and wealth in a wife , if I sacrificed all that , I would be sure of finding a country girl who was at least pure … but … but I should not accuse you . ’ |
| 2 | Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern . |
| 3 | When I 'd finished , I did n't look at Mum and Dad , I just stared at the carpet . |
| 4 | He did n't look at Dot . |
| 5 | He rolled over and opened his eyes though he did n't look at Dot any more than she looked at him . |
| 6 | It did n't look like cheese . |
| 7 | ROS : That did n't look like love to me . |
| 8 | The walls were white but the whiteness did n't look like paint . |
| 9 | But they did n't look like screenplay writers . |
| 10 | Oh , there were ones that did n't look like Mother 's day cards but still ! |
| 11 | ‘ My dear ma'am , I assure you I do n't look for matrimony . |
| 12 | But please do n't look for System Professional in the shops . |
| 13 | Now , I , I , I do n't , I do n't look for trouble , you know me |
| 14 | You know , I think it is now more a traditional family time , Christmas , and you know they do n't look at Hogmanay the same . |
| 15 | We do n't look at telly . |
| 16 | But they apart from Stan do n't look like scoring and er this here is an example of of really superb play . |
| 17 | We do n't look like pop stars , we 're just = us ! |
| 18 | Littlewoods say they are not worried by the prospect of disappointed customers complaining they do n't look like catwalk queens in their £9.99 clothes . |
| 19 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 20 | It does n't look like camera shake . |
| 21 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |