Example sentences of "she look [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex .
2 A little light patter while she looks for the file .
3 She looks at the collection with a view to its bearing on garden history .
4 Do you that a child 's mind works in this way , as he or she looks at the world and finds meaning of in it , and are others who are influenced by their own experiences and by their conclusions of others .
5 ‘ Papa , tell Belle Maman that if she looks at the baby like that , I shall get only her hat in the picture … ’
6 Mary Douglas has dealt with this extensively in Purity and Danger , where , amongst other sources , she looks at the Book of Leviticus in these terms .
7 Lying on her back , floating , she looks towards the summerhouse .
8 She looks like a geezer .
9 At 18 , she decides after her affair with the French teacher that outwardly she is a girl , she looks like a girl , and she ca n't go through life thinking she 's a boy .
10 There is also a contrast between the forge and Satis House as the house is barricaded and the inside is all dark so Pip has to be led by candlelight to Miss Havisham and when he first sees her all in white she looks like a fairy godmother but as he looks closer he sees her decay and yellowness .
11 She looks like a Jewess , thought Fedorov .
12 She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head .
13 She looks like a farmer 's wife . ’
14 She looks like a mum to Babur .
15 So she looks like a princess and she looks like her mum .
16 Drinking blackcurrant juice from a plastic beaker , her hair in a bob that looks as though she did it herself with kitchen scissors , she looks like a child .
17 Three o'clock in the morning , bopping through a weird limb-jerking dance routine , and she looks like a child at playschool .
18 She looks like a hooker . ’
19 So the girl is in on this , the artist and he goes off to meet this er bride-to-be at the airport and she comes in , perfectly , she looks like a model off of , off of Vogue , he practically drops dead of course .
20 Mum said of him : ‘ He 's gone meshugge ( daft ) … the shiksa comes from nowhere , we know nothing about her , or her family , and she looks like a shmatte ( rag ) . ’
21 She looks like a Scripture mistress out to grass . ’
22 And yet Raskolnikov 's greater enormity is that having forgotten to bolt the door after killing the money-lender he is surprised by her half-sister , the woman who mends linen and has mended his in her time , apparently always pregnant , through simplicity , not waywardness , meek-eyed though ‘ she looks like a soldier dressed up as a woman ’ ( who but Dostoevsky ! ) and Raskolnikov kills Lizaveta too .
23 She looks like an animal lying down there .
24 She looks like an angel and she 's a slut … . ’
25 ‘ Signore , she looks like the other , ’ the housekeeper said after a second or two , ‘ but they are not the same . ’
26 My God , thought Joshua , she looks like the figurehead on the Cutty Sark .
27 She looked into the mirror , moving her hips in time to some silent music in her head , letting the silky skirt swish enticingly around her legs — And saw another stranger looking back at her , eyes and mouth dreaming and vulnerable .
28 She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone .
29 But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection .
30 She looked into the girl 's unreadable grey eyes , appreciating the fineness of her face .
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