Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.
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1 | He looks at me for the first time . |
2 | ‘ Bring a horse , ’ said Hotspur , rearing up fiercely and looking about him for the nearest serviceable squire , ‘ and get him on to it . |
3 | Having delivered Eliot to those who were looking after him for the night , we walked back to our colleges discussing the evening , with the ardour of youth which included that most interesting of contests , the comparison of recollections . |
4 | ‘ My dear , your real mother has been looking after you for the past twenty years , ’ said Miss Rose sharply . |
5 | Her eyes flew upward , looking at him for the first time . |
6 | Suddenly , looking at me for the first time , ‘ Tell me , ’ she said , ‘ oh , tell me — what are you in ? ’ |
7 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
8 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
9 | ‘ A friend of mine , Anthony Cherry , who produces Prime Time for the BBC , saw in this some journalistic potential and is currently looking at it for the BBC programme 40 Minutes ’ , says Hewitt . ’ |
10 | And though I am not sure I would be able to stand looking at it for the run of the show , William Holman Hunt 's hideous , hard-core Pre-Raphaelite head of Christ ‘ The Beloved ’ has the punch of a Gilbert and George . |
11 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
12 | Then , if you like , you can do a little pantomime routine where you look behind you for the ghost but it follows you around until you finally find it , and then you can do a brief activity with the ghost , like walk around the room in ‘ follow my leader ’ style or sing a song such as ‘ My kneebone 's connected to my thigh bone ’ . |
13 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
14 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
15 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
16 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
17 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
18 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |
19 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
20 | Cheryl looked at her for the first time . |
21 | He looked at her for the first time and saw the tears on her cheeks that were glistening in the starlight . |
22 | ‘ Please , ’ she replied softly then looked at him for the first time since he had sat down . |
23 | She looked at him for the first time , then lowered her eyes again . |
24 | He looked at me for the first time when I said this . |
25 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
26 | You could n't see the card until you unfolded the handkerchief and now Wexford looked at it for the first time . |