Example sentences of "[verb] he look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Hoomey found he looked to Jazz for support , trusting his judgement .
2 By late September , the local doctor concluded that the lad was sinking fast , and told him ( according to the diary ) ‘ that notwithstanding all the efforts which have been made to check the disease , they had not done so … and advised him to look to God to prepare him for whatever might be the event of the disease .
3 He says he looked at WABI and its approach a year ago and was unimpressed .
4 He says he looked at Wabi and its approach a year ago and was unimpressed .
5 Khruschev 's half-hearted attempt to oust Dej in 1957 encouraged him to look for allies to counter Soviet influence .
6 He reached for the telephone directory and looked up the number of Morley Hooper , the retired accountant whom Matthew had told him looked after Riddle 's more important business affairs .
7 It 's beautiful to think there 's a man who spends his life going from hotel to hotel , paying chambermaids to let him look in beds slept in by women , in the hope of finding some hairs !
8 In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole .
9 The moustache made him look like Albert Schweitzer , but not benevolent .
10 Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success .
11 Walter , after Walter because he thinks he looks like Walter
12 But he 's shaved his hair off so he looks better , he thinks he looks like Yul Brynner .
13 Yeah , I think he looks like Macouly
14 PLUG ARE a cheerful four-piece with a singer who likes to think he looks like Morrissey but actually bears a closer resemblance to a slightly wobbly Eddie Tenpole Tudor , and reveals an easy to spot Cud fixation .
15 Dermot , you see , is an Elvis fan , and given the right stimulants , has been known to think he looks like Presley ( although , as one bemused clubber from Leeds commented , ‘ He looks more like a young Max Bygraves ’ ) .
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