Example sentences of "['s] [noun] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the evenings I taught my son , Branwell , and my wife 's sister looked after the youngest child , Anne . |
| 2 | Instead of trying to explain the extinction and replacement of species in terms of observable causes , Lyell 's opponents looked to the patterns revealed in the fossil record to explain the history of life on earth . |
| 3 | She felt that it was n't children 's job or children 's responsibility to look after the world , it was our job , and that it was not fair to make children feel responsible for doing that erm I mean that seems to me to be a legitimate viewpoint and erm but it 's one of many and I mean other people may feel that in order to save the planet , or indeed prevent wars in the future , it is important to expose children to the dangers of , you know , the current situation . |
| 4 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 5 | The McGuire et al 's study looked at the medication regimen of a group of patients on admission and on discharge . |
| 6 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 7 | An integral part of Labour 's plan to look after the coal industry will be the adoption of European proposals for the coal industry . |
| 8 | It is not part of Stone 's business to look at the condition of working people , but the illustrations in the book reveal very little about the thought styles that the privileged brought to marriage and divorce . |
| 9 | Anne 's daddy looked at the mistletoe in the apple-tree when they reached Sundial Cottage and then went in with the three Brownies to see Miss Miggs . |
| 10 | It is interesting for today 's connoisseur to look at the cellar list of the Dolls ' House and ruminate on the joys of opening a bottle or two . |
| 11 | Police said today 's bombing looked like the work of the IRA although no admission had yet been received . |
| 12 | Ulster 's Protestants look upon the RUC 's changing role as a form of betrayal , a shocking revelation that it is not , after all , a ‘ Protestant force ’ dedicated to Loyalism . |
| 13 | He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 14 | They were a display of one family 's ability to look after the treasure of another family , treasure as represented by one carefully protected , carefully prepared girl . |
| 15 | Racing 's bosses looked into the circumstances of the horse 's 33-1 triumph and found that no rules had been broken . |
| 16 | Much later , after the funeral , Billy 's mother looked for the letter that Auntie had written to the pension people . |
| 17 | Anyone who comes to Rolle 's lyrics looking for the subtle music of variety of stress within a regular syllabic pattern will be brought up short by an unpredictability of both syllabic and stress systems which lurch uneasily from one banal sing-song pattern to another . |
| 18 | In other words , where yesterday 's historian looked for the history of an oppressed working class , today 's historian looks for marginalized groups , and those who have transgressed social norms . |
| 19 | Mrs Jones ' mother looks after the children in the afternoon . |