Example sentences of "look at [adj] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat looking at that light for almost two hours , by which time I was desperate . |
| 2 | Treasury officials will also be looking at slapping Vat for the first time on bus fares , water , domestic fuel , books and newspapers . |
| 3 | Hazel and Blackberry , after looking at each other for a moment , caught him up and went beside him . |
| 4 | We stood looking at each other for a long moment ; then he walked slowly up to me . |
| 5 | My other half ordered from a catalogue disc drives to assemble compu , er a home computer and he was looking very carefully cos computer parts can be quite expensive and he was looking at national catalogue for the best prices . |
| 6 | ‘ Look at that film-star for instance , ’ she added , pointing at the silent TV screen where a bosomy female was being embraced by a craggy actor in the moonlight . |
| 7 | We must look at this quest for beauty as a purpose more real and noble than the quest of the knights of old for the Holy Grail . |
| 8 | ‘ I need to go and look at this furniture for the house , ’ she admitted . |
| 9 | She loved Roman with all her heart and soul , and she doubted if she would be able to even look at another man for the rest of her life . |
| 10 | The Milan Congress gave impetus to those who favoured the Pure Oral method to agitate for the inclusion of education of the deaf in the proposed Royal Commission that was to be formed to look at educational provision for the blind in Britain , on the grounds that the Education Acts of the 1870s had ignored educational provision for the deaf and dumb . |
| 11 | Other colleagues working in schools or adult training centres from our authority were also asked to participate , as together we had previously set up a voluntary curriculum development group to look at authority-wide provision for young people and adults with severe learning difficulties . |
| 12 | The two men looked at each other for a moment , no doubt exchanging of those wordless communications that women contrive now and then . |
| 13 | Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans . |
| 14 | They looked at each other for the first time with a long , speculative look , weighing up the possibilities honestly and in much the same terms . |
| 15 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 16 | The men looked at each other for a moment , then glanced away quickly . |
| 17 | They looked at each other for a long time . |