Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looks at me for a bit , then she goes over to the drawer and takes out another envelope . |
| 2 | He looks at me for a second . |
| 3 | She looks at them for a bit and then hands them over to me . |
| 4 | ‘ He stands and looks at them for a long time . |
| 5 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 6 | She had looked at him for a long time , at first solemnly and then with mounting anger . |
| 7 | " She looking for someone for a job ? " |
| 8 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 9 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 10 | Theda stood looking after them for a moment , aware of her own burning curiosity . |
| 11 | She stood looking after him for a moment ; then she dropped on to an upturned box , and bending her head into the folds of flesh under her chin , she asked of herself why she had to do this . |
| 12 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 13 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 14 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 15 | However anyone looking to it for an explanation of how women have come to be excluded so completely from the control of machines , or even for a theoretical framework within which to pose such a question , is in for a disappointment . |
| 16 | When , a minute later , he pulled on the handle of the iron bell and it clanged loudly , the door of a small house just beyond the gates opened and a man appeared and stood looking at them for a moment before speaking . |
| 17 | The young man sat looking at him for a moment , then raised his eyebrows , sat forward and took up his pen once more . |
| 18 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 19 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 20 | Mouse took its head in his hands and met its eyes , looking at it for a long moment . |
| 21 | They got out and he stood looking at it for a moment or two before he walked to the door after Mary Rose . |
| 22 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 23 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 24 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 26 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 27 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 28 | If the wife is unable to take a nap in the afternoon when the children are napping , then possibly there is someone who could look after them for a few hours at least one day a week for her to regain her strength . |
| 29 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 30 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |