Example sentences of "look [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's take all the little bastard 's clothes off , and see how he looks as a nigger . ’ |
| 2 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 3 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson looks for a change of luck tonight at sold-out Elland Road . |
| 4 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 5 | If results do not occur , the marketing director , or , worse , the managing director , looks for a scapegoat , human nature being what it is . |
| 6 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 7 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 8 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 9 | Cricket : Inquest looks for a victim : Derek Hodgson examines the problems facing today 's gathering of the Headingley hierarchy |
| 10 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 11 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 12 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
| 13 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 14 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 15 | NOW AT&T LOOKS FOR AN INFORMATION SERVICES FIRM IN WHICH TO INVEST |
| 16 | Michael Ryan has looked for a rapprochement between deconstruction and Marxism . |
| 17 | He had looked for a loophole in their guard , he had found that crevice at the first time of asking . |
| 18 | But apparently no one else has looked for a phage that might produce such a toxin . |
| 19 | So the story , the dearly-bought exclusive , the story that had looked for a moment — just a moment — like Christine Keeler Mark 2 arrived on the desk of Sir David English , Pamella 's last editor . |
| 20 | It was inevitable therefore that she should have looked for a career in motor racing — at least that was what she told herself . |
| 21 | They should have looked for a two-bedded , well-equipped flat in Norwich or in a convenient village close to the shops and post office , and to a church , of course . |
| 22 | The Man of Law 's " " I speke in prose " " need not be a description of the tale he is about to tell — it may be read as equivalent to " my speech is ( normally ) prosaic " — but several critics have looked for a prose work of Chaucer 's which could be identified as the once-intended tale of the Man of Law . |
| 23 | There do not appear to have been any empirical studies which have looked for an increase in the amount of information reflected in share prices as a result of the commencement of trading in index futures ( except in so far as volatility reflects information ; see Chapter 13 ) . |
| 24 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 25 | Surely it was a lie that the boy had looked through a window of Primrose Cottage and seen it ? |
| 26 | I mean I 've never looked through a telescope . |
| 27 | Such a gritty attitude is typical of the veteran Redruth prop , who looks after a flock of 530 sheep and a small herd of beef cattle on his holding close to Padstow on Cornwall 's windswept Atlantic coast . |
| 28 | For example , some who have for years looked after a spouse may sometimes have deeply resented the way that this has taken over their lives , particularly perhaps if this feels forced by cultural assumptions such as ‘ appropriate ’ roles for women in the domestic setting . |
| 29 | She always looks like a sack of spuds she does |
| 30 | Bill confesses : ‘ My house usually looks like a tip . |