Example sentences of "look [prep] her for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But you are going to be sorry to see that one go because you 've looked after her for so long . |
| 2 | Nobody had looked after her for years , he had been quite right about that . |
| 3 | Dierdriu had looked at her for a long moment . |
| 4 | We have been looking for her for three weeks . |
| 5 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 6 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 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 was looking at her for help — he was pleading , through his fury , for the assistance of his sister … it was just that , in his youth , he could not control the emotion in his face , and she quivered with the imagined rage , only now recognizing the desperation in his eyes . |
| 9 | He stood within the doorway looking at her for a moment . |
| 10 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps you can look after her for five minutes while I go and book the rooms ? ’ |
| 12 | Hordes of admirers screech that they would be only too willing to take Kylie home and look after her for a while . |
| 13 | No , yeah I 'll come with you , you go off and stay with Joyce , look after her for a little while and let Kenneth sort things out ! |
| 14 | St John glanced quickly at her , but dared not look at her for long . |
| 15 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 16 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 17 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 18 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 19 | Evelyn looked at her for a long moment . |
| 20 | He looked at her for a moment . |
| 21 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 22 | He looked at her for a moment as if seeing her for the first time then paused , giving the question serious thought . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Leo looked at her for a moment . |
| 25 | He looked at her for a long moment , puffing on his seisha , then spoke for the first time . |
| 26 | Bill looked at her for a moment . |
| 27 | Infected by his laughter the wife of the younger mandarin smiled , and Joseph looked at her for the first time . |
| 28 | Alina looked at her for a while . |
| 29 | Both of them looked at her for a second , then continued their hushed conversation . |
| 30 | Langton looked at her for a moment , then reached into his desk . |