Example sentences of "who looks [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fish plop lazily around out of reach of the heron , who looks across intently at the water flurries . |
| 2 | Ivy found her very elegant and said of her ( I am told ) : ‘ She 's a young woman who looks as if she had never had to wash her gloves . ’ |
| 3 | So that the next time a shop assistant ( particularly one who looks as if he might not know what day of the week it is ) asks how Sir or Madam will be paying they 'll say ‘ Cash ’ and make quite sure they rip up the receipt as they leave . |
| 4 | Either that or find a robin who looks as if he has a purpose in life . |
| 5 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 6 | He is a big likeable feller who looks as if he belongs in a jazzband playing the stringbass . |
| 7 | At the same time , many critics show notable preference for stories with a moral conclusion over those which seem to offer simple entertainment ; and any critic who looks at a book from the angle of the potential reader rather than of the book itself is in danger of being tempted by false hierarchies . |
| 8 | It is almost obligatory that the private-eye should be a person who looks at society from below , as contrasted with the Great Detective who certainly hovered over the world of murder from high above . |
| 9 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 10 | The concept of an unspecified information need is further developed by Wersig , who looks at a need situation as a problem situation and states that , " the notion of problem treatment process enables us to look at the stages which play an important role within the organism before any behaviour can be observed . " |
| 11 | ‘ If they 're sensible they do and their daughters will know what it 's all about and wo n't throw themselves at the first lad who looks at them . |
| 12 | Throw yourself into the arms of the first lad who looks at you . ’ |
| 13 | Who looks at whom ? |
| 14 | In England and Wales this is done by the coroner 's court , as indeed it is in some States in the USA and in Canada , and in Scotland it is the procurator fiscal who looks into the matter and will , if he considers it to be an appropriate case , raise the matter at a fatal accidents inquiry in the sheriff 's court . |
| 15 | First , the person who looks into it sees not only his or her own reflection but also the other cars on the ‘ thruway ’ : the viewer looks ahead in order to see behind . |
| 16 | This image is completely different to the image that is presented to Mitch , who looks on Blanche as a true ‘ lady ’ : ( Mitch has tried to embrace her — ) |
| 17 | In his celebrated letter to Chesterfield , Samuel Johnson asks : ‘ Is not a Patron , My Lord , one who looks with unconcern on a Man struggling for Life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , the possibility of a conversation is denied with a model who presents an uplifted chin and who looks over the artist 's and viewer 's heads . |
| 19 | The library user who looks for books of art criticism is not necessarily going to have an easy task . |
| 20 | Cos an archaeologist is somebody who looks for clues . |
| 21 | Michael Maloney 's Hal is a pleasant fellow who looks to Robert Stephens 's rather subdued , warm-hearted Falstaff for the affection he does n't get from his testy , disapproving father . |
| 22 | It 's heavy breathing — and heavy going for the French superstar , who looks to us dreadfully overweight , with a beer belly suggesting he indulged rather too much in the culinary delights of Mauritius . |
| 23 | For a girl who has school trophies for athletics and swimming in the family cabinet , who supports Liverpool and whose favourite player is Steffi Graf , Bradnam is getting an achiever who looks to the best in sport for her inspiration . |
| 24 | It is of interest that Schüssler Fiorenza , who looks to the continuity of the tradition , is a Roman Catholic . |
| 25 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 26 | Patrice Haguellar , who used to coach Noah and Leconte in a private capacity , and who is now France 's National Coach , is a realist who looks upon the 1992 campaign as ‘ … a new challenge ’ |
| 27 | Everyone who looks upon it sees a different weapon . |
| 28 | Patrick Dempsey , who looks like Sean Penn without a scowl , plays Randy Bodek , a pizza delivery boy who ends up as a toy boy serving Beverly Hills women with ‘ extra anchovies ’ . |
| 29 | Certainly , Cicciolina is a beautiful woman who looks like an older , sleazy Brooke Shields with straight , platinum-blond hair and a strange set of thick , auburn-tinted brows . |
| 30 | To find a little boy who looks like me and maybe has a ring like this one . |