Example sentences of "looked [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | American Can also looked for areas with reasonably priced rates and rent and with pleasant housing areas for staff relocating with the company . |
| 9 | He looked for signs of a faith more supernatural , less conventional , more revolutionary . |
| 10 | He also looked for signs of abnormal radioactivity in the vicinity while seeking for the source of the heat and gas but nothing significant turned up . |
| 11 | Alice thought , as she looked for signs to the Underground , I am frightened . |
| 12 | Wycliffe looked for signs of strangulation but found none . |
| 13 | He looked for signs of illness . |
| 14 | The boy carried me in my travelling box , and put me down on the beach , while he looked for birds ' eggs among the rocks . |
| 15 | The examiner specifically looked for complications known to be related to cyclosporin , including tingling and numbness in the extremities , tremor , headache , hirsutism , gingival hyperplasia , and infection . |
| 16 | They sketched their ideas and then looked for clothes to match . |
| 17 | Two US sociologists looked for connections between debt and life-expectancy in 73 countries . |
| 18 | She gave two sharp little nods , as if that finished the matter , which no doubt it did , except that I still looked for gaps in her defences . |
| 19 | We looked for squirrels red squirrel and grey squirrel — live happily side by side at Vyrnwy — but today they were deep in the forest . |
| 20 | They wanted examples and cases to show that the institutions of capitalism are historically specific and therefore changeable ; in order to demonstrate this they looked for examples of institutions which were as different from those of capitalism as possible . |
| 21 | However , in order to answer those who had argued that without private property society was impossible , Marx looked for examples of a society without private property , again an opposite society , which would therefore also be without exploitation . |
| 22 | The DHSS/SSRC initiative , which at the outset looked for explanations of deprivation within families , ended by acknowledging the importance of structural factors . |
| 23 | Every day I looked for jobs at other window companies , the job centre and in local papers . |
| 24 | Erm , they put the bit of paper in the middle with the suggestion type of thing that they were , and then they all looked for words , erm , then Ian and Deborah arranged the words on the paper to start ar , rearranging the jingle so that the words that they had , they used their resources like that , and anything else . |
| 25 | These studies , therefore , looked for links between pause patterns and the predictability of successive words . |
| 26 | We looked for years but could n't find her . |
| 27 | It was increasingly to those churches outside England , to Hughes ' seventy million , especially those in America , that English Nonconformists looked for reinforcements . |
| 28 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 29 | Even supporters such as Huxley treated it as only a secondary mechanism and looked for alternatives to supplement it . |
| 30 | Nick stayed with Marsh for four years , but as the Australian started to wind down his US operation , the baseball-glove specialist looked for pastures new . |