Example sentences of "look [prep] [indef pn] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even then we would play it a bit too close and find that some unforeseen emergency would send us scrambling around looking for something we could sell to avoid starvation . |
| 2 | He was thumbing through USA Today for the umpteenth time , looking for something he might have missed , when he heard her giggling . |
| 3 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
| 4 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 5 | He could see the surprise , the awe , as they stopped , looking at something he could not see . |
| 6 | It looked like something you might see in a photograph of black New Orleans in the thirties . |
| 7 | He looked like something you 'd frighten children with on Halloween . |