Example sentences of "she [vb mod] look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She may look like mother , but mother would have turned in her grave if she could have seen that girl today ! ’
2 She must look on Edward 's party as an opportunity not to be missed .
3 ‘ Oh yes , my mother is staying with us — so she 'll look after Mildred . ’
4 I wan na see Pat see if she 'll look after Aaron on Friday night , but Gary says he does n't want Tim and Lorraine having him cos they smoke like a chimney
5 If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies .
6 Léonie turned her head so that she could look at Baptiste .
7 Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact .
8 She had by then married and was living in Pakistan where , she found , she could look on events from a distance and see them more vividly .
9 Well , that was all right — she could look after Mum in the hour that was to follow while the identity of the body was established , and in all the grim hours after that , if the body was her sister .
10 And if she did , she would look into Carrie 's mind with her witch 's eyes and know that she knew that it was Mrs Gotobed weeping upstairs , and that she was remembering what Mr Evans had said .
11 And then she would look to Gary for him to begin the piano again , and she would look us straight in the eye for as long as possible , and she would sing :
12 She never thought that she would look at emptiness and not immediately be able to think of a hundred ways of filling it .
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