Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] 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 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 6 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 7 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 8 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 9 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 10 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 11 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 12 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 13 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 14 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 15 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 18 | I might have looked at her outside the church and seen just another assembly-line bride . |
| 19 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 20 | So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God ! |
| 21 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 22 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It means I must leave the doors unlocked , but that 's less risk than having him come looking for me within the quarter-hour , as he surely would . ’ |
| 25 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 26 | They 're looking for him on the moors . ’ |
| 27 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |
| 28 | The Tans had swarmed over the countryside looking for them after the execution . |
| 29 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 30 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |