Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] looked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 2 | She then rebuilt the old hospital in Santa Cruz and opened a pharmacy there , where she looked after the sick of that area . |
| 3 | The group — all males — were wearing either knee-length shirts or what looked like the jackets and trousers left from the last church jumble sale . |
| 4 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
| 5 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 6 | If only Silas had been there she could have consulted him , but although she looked along the corridor and outside there was no sign of him . |
| 7 | ‘ I would prefer that you looked at the model first . ’ |
| 8 | Is try and make up a mountain that 's misty , so she looked at the map and began to climb down . |
| 9 | Ianthe could think of no ready answer , so she looked round the room to see if there was anything practical she could do . |
| 10 | However the representatives of NEC and Fujitsu reserved comment , saying that they had not received official notice of their position and that they looked to the future to reveal this . |
| 11 | No , the fact of it was , Diane and her employer might easily have been two different species for the way that they looked at the world . |
| 12 | Their graves were tended by surviving relatives in much the same way that they looked after the house of an absent friend . |
| 13 | Later I realised that what made me uncomfortable was not that they looked like the inmates of those cattle trucks . |
| 14 | Police said at the time that it looked like the work of the IRA . |
| 15 | Only the mouth told him that he looked on the face of his friend . |
| 16 | Lou never even looked , on Tuesday and Friday nights , any more than he looked at the instrument he played . |
| 17 | At last , there was a cry of ‘ Silence ! ’ , and everyone looked towards the door . |
| 18 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 19 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 20 | Yet , directly I stepped out into the sunshine again , my superior self took over , and I looked at the matter differently . |
| 21 | Anyway , I come in ah , I went int kitchen , and I thought oh , there 's a loaf out of freezer , and I looked at the loaf but there 's only about four sandwiches in it . |
| 22 | We visited each weekend , and I looked after the baby during the week . |
| 23 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |
| 24 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 25 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |
| 26 | Yeah cos I got up J C R at eleven o'clock cos I looked at the clock up there . |
| 27 | Cos I looked at the timetable , I looked at the timetable when I , when I caught it over there , |
| 28 | Martha 's face was now flushed and she looked on the verge of tears . |
| 29 | The returning colour drained out of her face again , and she looked on the point of collapse . |
| 30 | They ate with a shared teaspoon out of the tin and she looked at the sardines and condensed milk now exposed between John Donne and Rosa Luxemburg . |