Example sentences of "look [prep] [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range . |
| 2 | Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , many women have begun to reject the expectations of men and have looked for their own ‘ role models ’ among themselves . |
| 4 | She looks after her 16-year-old granddaughter , Laurel , a precocious pyromaniac , who , ‘ by some extraordinary carelessness was violated in Hyde Park at the age of 12 ’ . |
| 5 | At 27 , she works as a nurse with mentally handicapped children in Southend and looks after her own three children , Candice , five , Kieran , three and 14-month-old Kari . |
| 6 | Joanne , however , goes out to work during the day and is out nearly every night , while her mother looks after her eight-month-old daughter , so they spend little time together . |
| 7 | Blake had been a very good agent and the KGB always looks after its own . |
| 8 | Mak says the Chinese population is often thought of as a ‘ silent community ’ which looks after its own . |
| 9 | Well they say the devil looks after his own . |
| 10 | Dreadful for the whole of our land , because the Agatean Emperor looks after his own and could certainly extinguish us at a nod . |
| 11 | Do him justice , he looks after his own , or at least he sees to it no one but himself shall flay them or hang them . |
| 12 | He could afford this , for the royal household had brazenly looked after its own . |
| 13 | In the course of time Aunt Nessy , having looked after her adoptive parents until they died , was left a small sum of money . |
| 14 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 15 | Some of the kennels young residents are lucky — they 're being looked after their real mother … |
| 16 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 17 | A child who has always looked after his own asthma is less likely to rebel later and discard inhalers or start smoking . |
| 18 | The Christian Spanish had looked towards their Moslem neighbours as arbiters of culture and learning . |
| 19 | At the moment it looks like my usual stint of ironing on Thursday and shopping on Friday are the main fixtures , but anything can happen before then . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is in the dark girl who looks like your dead wife . |
| 21 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 22 | He had got Sir Geoffrey 's note when he 'd looked into his own office at lunchtime . |
| 23 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 24 | She looks upon her broadening hips as an affirmation of life . |
| 25 | ‘ My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord and my spirit exults in God my saviour because he has looked upon his lowly handmaid Yes , from this day forward all generations will call me blessed for the Almighty has done great things for me . |
| 26 | Very big and brave they must have looked in their new NATO camouflage suits , and absolutely dead they were when they were taken out of the vans . |
| 27 | There are the careerists amongst the senior management of the school , some of whom will seem to have ‘ sold out to the system ’ : to affect a philosophy in so far as it looks in their own interests to do so , to have become executives and to have lost touch with the pupils . |
| 28 | So you John now Jonathan he 's only fifteen , I know he looks in his twenties , but he 's only fifteen and he 's done a lot of homework so it makes him late and it makes him uncomfortable and he 's fidgety because he knows he 's got to disturb us when he goes out , he does n't does n't enjoy disturbing us , so I have to make that clear to you . |
| 29 | Dr Jim Howe , Tony 's doctor , said : ‘ His parents said how peaceful their son has looked over his last few days and how relieved they are that he is finally at rest . ’ |
| 30 | They come across as a splendid reminder of the days , only just past , when the English and Irish upper class had not become embittered and still looked on their poorer neighbours with sympathy and kindly humour . |