Example sentences of "[pron] looked [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at it for a long time until Marie Claire 's kitchen began to form itself around the pots . |
| 2 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 3 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |
| 4 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She 's gone to Sam 's party , ’ said Scarlet , hastily , applying the brush to her hair and wondering why it made you feel so odd if you looked at yourself for a long while in the glass . |
| 6 | ‘ Nobody , ’ said Scarlet , thinking that if you looked at yourself for long enough , you and your reflection merged until there really was no one there at all . |
| 7 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 8 | She looked at them for a long time . |
| 9 | She looked at them for a moment with pleasure and then set the bucket down and turned to Murphy . |
| 10 | She looked at me for several seconds without speaking , and then said , ‘ Well , Molly , we all think you treat life as a joke ! ’ |
| 11 | She looked at me for a moment , measuringly , as if wondering whether I meant it . |
| 12 | She looked at him for a moment as if weighing up the consequences of telling the truth for once . |
| 13 | She looked at him for a moment and burst out laughing . |
| 14 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
| 15 | She looked at it for a long time , and then began to cry . |
| 16 | She looked at it for a long time . |
| 17 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 18 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 19 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |
| 20 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 21 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 22 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 23 | We looked at it for ages when it was dead . |
| 24 | Both of them looked at her for a second , then continued their hushed conversation . |
| 25 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 26 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 27 | He looked at me for a while , thinking . |
| 28 | He looked at me for a moment then sighed and got up from the chair . |
| 29 | He looked at me for a moment , halted in the act of folding his stethoscope . |
| 30 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |