Example sentences of "a [noun] look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're such a waste of space you make a crab-louse look like Mother Teresa . |
| 2 | The two earliest pieces come from the Sixties : a sketch looks at obsession with a painting , another hints at an interest in criminal society , and a rather later sketch ( The Big Shave , 1967 ) has suggestions of future edgy jokes . |
| 3 | This is a research report after a study looking at Attendance Allowance claimants ' views of the medical examination they underwent . |
| 4 | ‘ People tend at first to treat you as if you 're a journalist looking for Guinness connections . ’ |
| 5 | A stockbroker looking at Vermeer 's ‘ Portrait of a Young Woman at the Met ’ suddenly finds himself alongside another woman whose face resembles the painting . |
| 6 | Out of the pet shop window a cat looked at Lyn with champagne-coloured eyes . |
| 7 | In my home in Wales last week , I paced back and forth over the flagstones , my aerial before me , like a dowser looking for water . |
| 8 | Strathdee : A need to look at strategies |
| 9 | The Prince sat silently for a moment looking at Owen . |
| 10 | It is worthwhile taking a moment to look at regulation 4 because it governs the whole attitude of the AlB towards its responsibilities . |
| 11 | If I want to have a job looking after kids , I 'll get one in a nursery . |
| 12 | She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside . |
| 13 | After the fight had ended John Pain went out in a Magister to look for survivors and found two German aircrew hanging onto a lifebuoy off Ghajn Tuffieha . |
| 14 | Remembering that I am not defining housewife as a woman dancing attendance on a healthy but indolent male but as a person looking after babies and others who need looking after , what do feminists think the housewife should live on ? |
| 15 | The natural place for a person to look for information about an unknown word is in a dictionary . |
| 16 | Van den Boogard suggested that in the Anglo-Norman fabliaux the author assumes what he calles the persona of the clerk , i.e. a character looking for respect and admiration for his ability to tell a fascinating tale of intrigue ( inter alia ) , whereas a French author is more likely to adopt the persona of the jongleur , shocking by his anarchism but amusing at the same time through his self-mockery . |
| 17 | A thief looking for gold ? ’ |
| 18 | You do n't even , do you get a chance to look at speech therapists in action ? |
| 19 | Mrs. Favor was watching the McLaren girl , staring right at her , so I had a chance to look at Mrs. Favor . |
| 20 | We had over three hours before our train 's timetabled departure at 4 p.m. , which gave us a chance to look round Minehead , get a meal and try to find a place where we could taste a famous local product — scrumpy . |
| 21 | Or you may be a carer looking for help to enable you to take a break , either for regular short spells , or to go on holiday or in an emergency . |
| 22 | For a few minutes we watched a tree-creeper working his way up the trunk of a tree looking for grubs until Bill the dog , crashing through the undergrowth sniffing for smells , frightened him off . |
| 23 | I paid the woman next door a quid to look after Lee and Max , bought a roller and tray and a paste brush — another quid — borrowed a paste board , and at 8 a.m. skipped off to my first commission . |
| 24 | It is costing the council between £200 and £500 a week to look after Gemma . |
| 25 | Fokin agreed to set up a commission to look into union grievances . |
| 26 | When a man looks at nature as Thoreau did , he is moved by some invisible influence . |
| 27 | Mr Geoff Nichol , Darlington chief executive , had been asked to help with a project looking at community care but would still hold his position with the district , said Mr Smith . |
| 28 | She was arrested when she flew back to Britain in tears last week , protesting that she had made arrangements with a neighbour to look after Gemma , a pupil at a stage school . |
| 29 | He knew the cruelty she was going to witness over the next three months would be agony for her because , for some reason , she trusted animals far more than humans , but , like a nurse looking after animals in a vivisection clinic , he could n't prevent her pain , only alleviate it as much as possible . |
| 30 | Nothing is more lethal for certain kinds of meme than a tendency to look for evidence . |