Example sentences of "looked [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I looked through Gemma 's I could |
| 2 | Yes , when I looked through Appendix Three , the Equal Opportunities Targets , and the Public Service Units . |
| 3 | From West Hide and from Grizedale Hide we looked through slit windows on to extensive pools . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The BEA thus increasingly looked for sites more distant from the load centres , locating them instead on the coast ( where cooling water supplies were cheap and plentiful ) or on the coalfields ( where coal would be the cheapest ) . |
| 6 | On our way I looked for Mathilda but Benjamin was right , there was no sign of the little minx . |
| 7 | In contrast to Adenauer , Erhard always welcomed discussion and looked for consensus . |
| 8 | Briefly she looked for Liban , but the faces were all the same — white as fire , empty as death . |
| 9 | As she looked for things to furnish the house with , Signora Silvana , with her innate good taste and love of beautiful things , developed another interest — collecting antiques — and the result is the Country House Hotel . |
| 10 | She looked for Patrick 's photograph and saw it under the sofa . |
| 11 | After three hours we looked for land . |
| 12 | He sent someone to round up loose horses and looked for Cormac and Ferteth . |
| 13 | Woodruffe jumped out of the car in a panic and looked for Woolley . |
| 14 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 15 | Cropper looked for support from the African Institution for the removal of the West Indians ' financial advantage in the sugar trade , privately assuring Zachary Macaulay that the introduction of free-labour sugar was opposed by the planters because they knew it ‘ will destroy their System of cultivation , tho ’ it can be proved to be the only means of establishing West Indian property on a lasting foundation . |
| 16 | A separate analysis that Marie-Louise Newell and I have done on the employment histories of women born in 1946 looked for evidence of occupational downgrading associated with childbearing ( Newell and Joshi , 1986 ; Joshi and Newell , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge . |
| 18 | It was in the War Academy that Valenzuela learned how to detain , interrogate , and exploit the fears of prisoners — while psychologists looked for weakness in the young draftees and weeded out those who seemed sentimental . |
| 19 | I took the woman 's advice and looked for work paid by the hour . |
| 20 | Damiani and his wife went to Jordan in 1950 while his brothers looked for work in Beirut . |
| 21 | Who did n't riot , but got on his bike and looked for work ? |
| 22 | They had huddled together , small exiles , refugees , in a boarding-house in Manchester , while their mother looked for work and their father hung on in Berlin trying to assemble his papers . |
| 23 | Erm , I took her at her word , I still looked for work , I did n't stop looking for work but I took it that she was happy enough me being on the dole if it meant that we could stay around Bay or Anglesey . |
| 24 | I looked for respite at the catalogue . |
| 25 | Tagg looked for prompt and well-considered short lists of candidates , shrewd advice and help in drawing up the brief and specification , and some form of guarantee and after-sales service . |
| 26 | When , on the third morning I looked for Athman to say goodbye to him , he was nowhere to be found and I had to leave without seeing him again . |
| 27 | Even when applied to the novel , as in Leavis 's writings on novelists or Lodge 's own early critical book , Language of Fiction , the New Criticism looked for passages of quasi-authorial description , or the exploration of consciousnesses that seem to carry authorial support . |
| 28 | After pre-whitening the series of spot and futures prices , they looked for Granger causality ( see Chapter 8 ) between these series . |
| 29 | But pain often persists after all steps have been taken to relieve the cause , and practical investigators looked for drugs which gave the benefits of morphine without causing addiction or other inconvenient effects . |
| 30 | I looked for bubbles rising , hoping to find him that way , and saw not bubbles but a red stain in the water a short way off , a swirl of colour against drab . |