Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible . |
| 2 | Inspector Finch looks for it in various places . |
| 3 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 4 | She is on excellent terms with all the regular guests , and looks after them in a way which is almost maternal . |
| 5 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 6 | looked after me in Hyderabad , where he and his wife made me feel at home with their warm , relaxing hospitality . |
| 7 | Arnie had never looked after her in the way Guido meant , performing the sort of small but pleasing acts of chivalry that seemed to come so naturally to him . |
| 8 | He wanted to find Mr Brownlow , the kind old man who had looked after him in London . |
| 9 | The decision to place Gareth in the care of his grandparents , who have looked after him in the past while his mother was working , was taken by Strathclyde Regional Council 's social work department . |
| 10 | Yes , they have n't really looked after him in the field have they ? |
| 11 | I sometimes find myself using them yet long years you know when I thought I 'd forgotten them and any younger person just looks at me in amazement and has no idea what I 'm talking about . |
| 12 | He looks at her in fear : ‘ the cleft was like a dumb , stupid mouth . ’ |
| 13 | Paul looks at him in surprise : ‘ Why , that 's the Eiffel Tower ! ’ |
| 14 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 16 | She looks at you in a state of undress with undisguised shock . |
| 17 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |
| 18 | He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention . |
| 19 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 20 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 21 | The women who were working there looked at me in a kind curious way at first and then took me for granted . |
| 22 | The thin , capable woman who was taking the riding-class looked at him in amazement as he leaned panting on the gate to the ring , the dog whining beside him . |
| 23 | On the other hand , now he thought about it — that was one of the advantages of taking time out to think things through — there had been occasions when she had looked at him in a special way which made him think that she might not reject him . |
| 24 | Sixty-eight per cent of the population have read or looked at it in the past year . |
| 25 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 27 | So , I think that the er , education committee has taken the , the report seriously and quite recently has looked at it in depth . |
| 28 | Er , so , there is undoubtedly a lot of work still to be done in making the D S O competitive , as for building maintenance work , I 'm not certain we 've ever considered having a building maintenance D S O. We may have looked at it in the days before D S Os , but that 's er , a long time ago , and it 's certainly worth having a look . |
| 29 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 30 | Nobody would think of looking for him in the Channel Islands . |