Example sentences of "look [prep] [pn reflx] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Provided a breastfeeding mother looks after herself by wearing a good supporting bra , no further damage should be done to her figure . |
| 2 | Well wha what he does is is he looks at himself in the mirror something like that and er he sees sees the body he 's jumped into . |
| 3 | Then she gets in the back bedroom , we got a mirror at the back there what was took off one the dressing tables , and she sits and looks at herself in there and she keeps going like that |
| 4 | Piggy believed that he had overcome his disabilities and looked at himself in a very different way from the other boys . |
| 5 | ‘ Have you looked at yourself in the mirror lately ? ’ |
| 6 | mother you do not have to stay there , why , I mean he 's quite capable looking after himself for a weekend , you know my father had a series of stroke 's when he was in his fifties |
| 7 | This resulted in his becoming more distressed and unable to cope with either his work or looking after himself at home . |
| 8 | The key to being naturally beautiful is looking after yourself on the inside as well as the outside and that means eating healthily . |
| 9 | At eighteen she is doing A levels at college and wants to train as an aromatherapist , because she feels that looking after yourself with massage and perfume can make you feel good about yourself . |
| 10 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 11 | ‘ My daughter is twenty-eight , you know , quite capable of looking after herself without her parents breathing down her neck all the time . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd feel guilty if I started looking on myself as a victim . ’ |
| 13 | I 'M ALWAYS LOOKING AT MYSELF THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE 'S EYES |
| 14 | I kept looking at myself in the glass . |
| 15 | Critics of the concept suggest that Yuppies are the figment of the imagination of media , agency and marketing people , looking at themselves in a mirror in their expensive homes in the capital city . |
| 16 | He ran a glass under the kitchen tap , then returned to the living room and , looking at himself in the full-length mirror all the while , stood there naked , shaking violently as if with cold , and poured himself and drank three glasses of water without stopping . |
| 17 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 18 | So she put the dress on , and thought for a moment that perhaps it was not quite so frightful after all , and then , after looking at herself for a little longer , wondered if it were not in fact more frightful than she had ever imagined . |
| 19 | No , Kathleen thought , looking at herself in the mirror , at her own , pale face , no , she is not afraid , that is not it , Isabel has never known fear . |
| 20 | This fantasy was so vivid to her that she would even rehearse this line out loud , looking at herself in her mirror as she smoked the last cigarette of the night , after she 'd taken her face off , after all the noise was over and we 'd all gone home . |
| 21 | She was looking at herself in the full-length mirror by the side of the bed , pulling great lumps out of her stomach and grimacing at her own image . |
| 22 | Looking at herself in the mirror she saw that her eyes were swollen and her face blotchy . |
| 23 | And then when she was fully dressed , she shut the closet door over and stood looking at herself in the mirror which was on the other side . |
| 24 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 25 | Looking at herself in the looking-glass on the stairs she saw how small and pink her eyes looked , their lids still puffy and her skin was tired and lifeless . |
| 26 | Looking at herself in the mirror , she was very satisfied . |
| 27 | She combed her hair , looking at herself in the mirror . |
| 28 | ‘ I will escort you up the first flight of stairs , but I shall observe the proprieties by leaving you to look after yourself on the second landing . ’ |
| 29 | Well you may have , you may have to look after yourself in fact . |
| 30 | She had owned good horses such as Manicou ( who had won the King George VI Chase in 1950 ) and Monaveen ( who had finished fifth to Freebooter in that year 's Grand National as his royal owner 's first runner in the race ) , but in Devon Loch she had a chaser who apparently had all the attributes to win her the greatest steeplechase in the calendar : he was a big horse , strongly built and bold yet intelligent enough to look after himself in the hurly-burly of four and half miles and thirty fences . |