Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 2 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 3 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 4 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 5 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 6 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 8 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 9 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 10 | Well the new one was the new one was we looked at one in the gas |
| 11 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 12 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 13 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 14 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 15 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 16 | In simple terms , sponsorship of the Universities ' Athletic Union rugby championship alone is not acceptable to the UAU 's hierarchy , who seek money for all student sporting activities and are looking for something in the region of £100,000 to spread around . |
| 17 | But the politicians are looking for it in the wrong direction . |
| 18 | ‘ The others will come looking for it in the morning , ’ Grimma warned . |
| 19 | An invaluable reference book offering plenty of advice on looking after everything in the home — from the furniture to the family . |
| 20 | The ambulance came , and she ended up looking after him in the intensive care unit . |
| 21 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 22 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 23 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 24 | We 're particularly proud of him in South Cambridgeshire , as we 're also proud that so many of our environmental health officers like Alan Hobson do sterling work for us , and we are looking to them in the in the future with this semi-autonomy that they 've been given to really take on board the opportunities which have been given to them under the 1990 Act to really go to town on environmental health . |
| 25 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 26 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 27 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 28 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 29 | Looking at him in the dim light I saw he was clad only in vest and pants . |
| 30 | Having scrabbled round picking up as many ‘ pros ’ as I can find , and then weighing them against the ‘ cons ’ , while looking at everything in the most optimistic light , there can be no doubt that we are doomed . |