Example sentences of "look [prep] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 2 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 3 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 4 | They might not know him by sight , or might not be looking for him at all . |
| 5 | ‘ There must be many ways of making this place snugger , ’ argued Charles , looking about him with fresh eyes . |
| 6 | Afterwards , the representative from the film company said , ‘ I 've been looking after him for two weeks and that 's the first time I 've seen his teeth … . ’ |
| 7 | For the man looking at him through one natural eye and a lens in the socket of his other eye , the silver-haired man with a scar bisecting his cheek , to which he had sewn rubies so that the long-healed wound seemed still to gleam with blood — was none other than Baal Firenze . |
| 8 | Me ? ’ she said , looking at him with wide eyes . |
| 9 | Looking at him with cool objectivity like this , it was hard to see why he had had such a powerful and disturbing effect on her , she realised , aware once again of a strange inner certainty that she had seen him somewhere before , but unable to pin the memory down . |
| 10 | The two women were looking at him with great attention but it was the mother who spoke first . |
| 11 | ‘ Hello , ’ said the boy , looking at him with hollow eyes . |
| 12 | We sat before him looking at him with respectful eyes ( that is , all but one of us , who usually went to sleep as soon as the class started ; she was not just closing her eyes , she was fast asleep ) . |
| 13 | When he had got his balance back , a woman in a dowdy black dress was looking at him with tired amusement . |
| 14 | During his second premiership he noticed during a train journey that another occupant of the compartment was looking at him with some puzzlement . |
| 15 | He glanced up at her face again , and discovered that she was looking at him with some interest , and it struck him that until now starvation had held her attention to the exclusion of all else . |
| 16 | He could afford to study her , for she was not looking at him with any but surface attention . |
| 17 | She found herself opening her eyes , and looking at him with dazed longing . |
| 18 | But , standing in her bathroom , with her looking at him with those lovely blue eyes , her whole soul looking him in the face , her integrity undeniable , he knew the truth . |
| 19 | Seven pairs of eyes were looking at him with open hostility , even the youngest 's who was not yet four . |
| 20 | Louise , his warm-hearted , likeable , former neighbour was looking at him with obvious concern . |
| 21 | He tried asking her about herself , but she had a knack of averting his questions with an apparently bashful stammer , looking at him with kohl-lined eyes that rolled around like the globules in a bricklayer 's balance . |
| 22 | From then on , I took more interest in him , looking at him as more than just my employer . |
| 23 | What are you looking at him like that for ? |
| 24 | She goes in there , she 's sitting looking at him like that , she just stares at him . |
| 25 | Where he comes in and he does that piss and he 's and Madonna 's standing there looking at him like this and she 's just looking at him and she 's going , anyone who can keep it up that long and he 's just sitting there going er no he 's going er and she 's going , she 's going , and she 's coming round like that trying to look at him , I could n't stop laughing . |
| 26 | People should start looking at him in another year or 18 months . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Appen he wants to get his hands on the money from your dad 's books , ’ said Bill Clough , looking around him with eager interest , as if he had made a discovery . |
| 28 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 29 | So we really we one of us to be here to look after him in that sense , one of us gets paid |
| 30 | They were concerned to be caring and look after him at this time of tragedy , and he was just not really taking in what had happened . |