Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My housekeeper looks after the dogs . |
| 2 | My master looked towards the door . |
| 3 | My mam looked after the baby and I did a job on a scheme looking after old people . |
| 4 | My mother looked after the chickens . |
| 5 | He was imprisoned up there , beneath the lead roof , ’ Lucenzo said , pulling her close , his head against hers as she craned her neck to look at the pink and white Doges ' Palace . |
| 6 | He even switched on the blue urinal lamp to see how its light looked against the clean walls . |
| 7 | this case also dealt with the fact that the deceased mother had worked full time and this aunt had given up her job to look after the children . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's part of the adventure , ’ Carrie 's mother had said , and not just to cheer them up : it was her nature to look on the bright side . |
| 9 | Slorne was huddled silently in the top corner of her cage looking at the sky . |
| 10 | She did n't dare raise her head to look through the window in case she was spotted , but at least from here she could make a fair guess at where Adam and the stranger were located in the room . |
| 11 | And then , turning its head to look round the workshops , it said , ‘ We do not ask of you that you give us your slaves , Robemaker , for it is vital that the Looms are kept weaving . |
| 12 | At least in what other poorer women were telling me , when it came to after work and weekends the men were quite the women were prepared to look after the children and felt it was their role to look after the children while the man was at work ; when the man came back he continued to feel that the woman should look after the children erm for the rest of the time , and the idea of a shared child care arrangement did not operate in at least a number of the families that I talked to and had been one of the causes of the breakdown of the marriage and one of the precipitating factors in the man physically abusing the woman . |
| 13 | She must have saved herself about thirty pounds a week having you there , because she used to pay her neighbour to look after the two children for her while she was out at work . ’ |
| 14 | He accused the Labour group of going back on its promise to look after the interests of the handicapped . |
| 15 | He sees himself crossing the road — deftly , like a native , knowing exactly which way to look for the traffic . |
| 16 | Now he thought he knew the sort of case he had to deal with , and what he had read had pointed which way to look for the killer . |
| 17 | Give him time to look at the word . |
| 18 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 19 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 20 | Kopyion sat at his desk looking at the major . |
| 21 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 22 | She gave an extra piece of meat to Noah , then told Oliver to hurry up as it was his job to look after the shop . |
| 23 | His black eyes flickered , and he drew the monk over by his sleeve to look at the pageant more closely . |
| 24 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 25 | He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned , whilst his wife looked after the Post Office . |
| 26 | Mr Brocklebank , who had been sent by his wife to look at the house , reported back . |
| 27 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 28 | Serve them right , he thought vindictively and then , imitated at his own childishness , turned his head to look at the other people arranged alongside him , the desk 's shining expanse of polished wood reflecting their faces as twisted white blobs . |
| 29 | He turned his head to look at the mantelpiece . |
| 30 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |