Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Lifebuoy has an antiseptic action that looks after health upstairs , downstairs , at the sink , wherever it 's used ! |
| 2 | They drove up the short drive , past a lodge with a roof that looked in need of mending , good grass fields and post-and-rail fencing like broken teeth after years of neglect . |
| 3 | The ocean tilted up to meet him , its dark surface studded with points of light that looked like constellations , fallen stars . |
| 4 | Loks like granules , but add a pint or so of water and it swells , filling up a vase with solid squishiness and looking like crystal . |
| 5 | In addition , a number of distinguished judges have admitted to breaching the exclusionary rule and looking at Hansard in order to seek the intention of Parliament . |
| 6 | He climbed into the back seat and looked towards Annie 's cabin , making little attempt to conceal himself or keep low . |
| 7 | ‘ Hold on to that bloody cider , ’ Billy yelled Yanto twisted around on his seat and looked at Billy . |
| 8 | Cabochon wiped his mouth and looked at Jordan with panicked eyes . |
| 9 | Henry tipped out the edenwort and looked at Donald 's back . |
| 10 | Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning . |
| 11 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 12 | Then he put his head on one side and looked at Albert in an expectant way , like a dog waiting to be given a biscuit . |
| 13 | It certainly sees urban concentrations as resulting from industrialisation and capitalism : but it rapidly places these considerations to one side and looks to interactions between people as the prime explanation . |
| 14 | She had dyed black hair that looked like cotton wool dipped in liquid boot polish , her face was thin and feral-looking , and through the flimsy see-through negligee George could see that under her arms was enough hair to make a pair of identical wigs . |
| 15 | Khan and the Husayn twins were making offensive gargling noises while dancing round a statue that looked to Robert as if it might be the Lord Vishnu ; behind them , Mahmud did his Native American impression . |
| 16 | They have all gone off to work or to look for work , leaving behind the old , the disabled , the women and the children . |
| 17 | Thus while anyone in the world , with normal physical resources , can watch dance or look at sculpture or listen to music , still some forty per cent of the world 's present inhabitants can make no contact whatever with a piece of writing , and in earlier periods this percentage was very much larger . |
| 18 | But for Mr Maurice Healey , 13 years spent testing the strength of cotton and looking for flaws caused his passion for painting to blossom . |
| 19 | Knocker suddenly stopped mopping down the bar and looked at Yanto . |
| 20 | A poet might be attached to a household , or , increasingly , be dependent on travelling between households , performing his work and looking for hospitality and support . |
| 21 | Machinery Group provides : an administrator , usually part-time , to arrange all contract work and look after finances ; a small group of drivers/operators to carry out contract work and also to cover for sickness of a group member . |
| 22 | Woodruffe jumped out of the car in a panic and looked for Woolley . |
| 23 | ‘ Could … could I skip the shopping and look at buildings too ? ’ |
| 24 | Forget fantasy and look at fact . |
| 25 | Hugging the ground , dodging clumps of splintered trees , hopping over hedges and walls and old fortified lines , Lambert led Kimberley and Killion so low that they had little opportunity to take their eyes off the terrain and look for balloons . |
| 26 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |
| 27 | Marie put down the telephone and looked at Kee . |
| 28 | In this time of new opportunity , as the Board is making arrangements to move to its new home and looking to developments in every area of service , we 've also recognized that opportunities abound for local parish initiatives to attract funding from a variety of places . |
| 29 | There are various reasons for this misconception ; men are obliged to pray three times a day , and women are exempt from time-related duties , possibly because their loyalties would conflict with running a home and looking after children . |
| 30 | For example , when you 're thinking of young children learning to read , teachers like parents to read to their children at home and look at books with them at home . |