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 | Indeed , as Tony Gamble , the company 's Publisher and Managing Director , indicated to this year 's Electronic Publishing Conference the main reason they had n't looked at desktop publishing was because they were professional publishers and felt that the technology was unlikely to be suitable for them . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It does n't look like camera shake . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However modern synthetic fillings are much less bulky and heavy than you may remember if you have n't looked at sleeping bags for a while . |