Example sentences of "a look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I was sceptical as to the Brighton affair , I could not help seeing that there was rather a look about Mr Wilson sometimes ; for instance when , as occasionally happened , his wife 's leg was too bad for her to go shopping and he went alone . |
| 2 | He had a look about him , like he had a place to go . |
| 3 | Although she occasionally looked waif-like , there was a most unchildlike determination to her mouth and a look about her jawline that suggested that she would not be easily deflected from anything she had set her mind to , but otherwise her parents ' pride in the perfection of their product was largely justified . |
| 4 | There was a look about him , as if he 'd recently returned from the Front . |
| 5 | There was a look about her that said everything , and Jenna did n't need it spelt out . |
| 6 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 7 | On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box . |
| 8 | I think I 'd like to have a look into this . ’ |
| 9 | A look into the Christie archives showed that the catalogue listed four soup tureens , each selling for £68 . |
| 10 | A look into the kitchen drawers reveals a rare American silver baby-feeder by Joseph Lowndes of Philadelphia , c . 1780 . |
| 11 | She took a look into Sebastian 's room . |
| 12 | He gave me a look as if I were mad . |
| 13 | And the poor owd boy put his hat back on sheepish like and watched the fly zooming about the smithy , giving us a look as the same time . |
| 14 | Like video ram most graphics files support colour by , in effect , indexing into a look up table . |
| 15 | A look under the hood revealed the cause . |
| 16 | She 's watching Walter Hardy — seventy years old , and still the Bay 's most reliable handyman — as he moves out with waders and a boathook to take a look under the terrace 's decking . |
| 17 | So anyway , she got over it and all she had to do she she tell her to stay in bed now for s so many days but she 'd be up again the following day and then the nurse 'd come and have a look under her feet and she 'd say you been up again she 'd say . |
| 18 | I 'll have a look under there , yeah . |
| 19 | We take a look between the covers at Alwyn Crawshaw 's oil painting course , Bomberg 's WW1 art , and working in mixed media . |
| 20 | We take a look between the covers at Alwyn Crawshaw 's oil painting course , Bomberg 's WW1 art , and working in mixed media . |
| 21 | And perhaps ( I 'm being vain ) it was something that happened when Caroline was going on in her silly woman-of-advanced-ideas way — just a look between us . |
| 22 | You have a look between the two |
| 23 | They are quite happy to question you , though , and are not averse to having a look through your personal items when your back is turned . |
| 24 | And talking of checking , I 'd better have a look through the house to see if anything 's missing . |
| 25 | As far as the former is concerned we decide to find out where the electron is by shining a beam of light onto it and taking a look through a microscope . |
| 26 | Have you had a look through ? |
| 27 | So have a look through your book have a very quick glance at erm if you can just at an acid alkali one , at one side of an equation co try not to read it cover it up write it down and leave it for a few minutes till you 've forgotten if you did accidentally see what was on the other side till you 've forgotten it . |
| 28 | I 'm not going to have time to get two I 'll have a look through this before Erm you 've got the Lett 's it 's a good one this . |
| 29 | Let's have a look I 'll leave those you can have a look through some of those and |
| 30 | Erm if you have a look through them and then have a quick write down of what gifts you think the different ones that are mentioned in this are using . |