Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have often looked for it with binoculars , but I have never been able to glimpse it even with × 20 , though my 76-mm refractor brings it out unmistakably , and with my 39-cm reflector I have no trouble in seeing the central star . |
| 2 | But once more , in the words of the song , " it was a nice tiddley ship and the skipper looks on her with pride " . |
| 3 | ‘ Because he senses that she looks on him with disdain , ’ Lucy informed him . |
| 4 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 5 | She do n't say nothing to me , she just looks at me with these big eyes . |
| 6 | The girl who is almost as silent as me and looks at me with such horror . |
| 7 | I thought she 'd got over being ashamed of me , but now she looks at me with contemptuous pity . |
| 8 | They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion , her head still pumping in and out . |
| 9 | The headmaster looks at him with a firm but caring gaze . |
| 10 | He looks at you with pride , pleasure and admiration simply because you are part of the human race — that 's enough . |
| 11 | She had dreamt about him that night , she remembered , and in her dream he had looked at her with a smile of recognition . |
| 12 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 13 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 14 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 15 | Well I 've looked at it with a conscience cos I took the glass out originally . |
| 16 | She had never visited it before , and looked around her with interest , remembering to go to the kitchen entrance . |
| 17 | One day her mother came looking for him with a great heavy umbrella in her hand . |
| 18 | If they come looking for us with tusk and fang you 'd better be ready with that Winchester peashooter of yours . " |
| 19 | I went looking for it with my cousin Peter . " |
| 20 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 21 | ‘ There must be many ways of making this place snugger , ’ argued Charles , looking about him with fresh eyes . |
| 22 | He was strolling down the steep narrow street towards the sea , his hands deep in his pockets and his shirt open at the throat , very pale and Londonish , looking about him with the fond , proprietorial air of an Englishman returning to a favourite spot abroad . |
| 23 | He was absolutely worshipped by all disinterested persons at G.Q.G. When he entered the hotel , tapping the floor with his stick and looking about him with the mischievous and bright glances of a boy , every one came up to him instinctively , only too pleased to see him . |
| 24 | It 's worn well ; David must be looking after it with a coat of stop-rot now and then . ’ |
| 25 | And yet I 'm wrong , there 's more chance of that happening than your mother ever looking upon me with favour . |
| 26 | The boy stood looking round him with a wary face and large , intent eyes . |
| 27 | In a brown-panelled room smelling of tobacco they sat on opposite sides of a cold hearth full of cinders , swallowing hot wine and water under the blue eyes of Sergeant Collier , who was looking at them with intent curiosity like a man staring at a two-headed dog in a freak show . |
| 28 | He 'd lie on his bed at three or four in the morning just looking at them with rapt concentration , not reading them , just laying them out , changing which one was next to which one , as if determining some sequence or some relationship between the writers . |
| 29 | It is not right to do things half heartedly ; looking at them with the eyes of philosophy . |
| 30 | Nor is it simply looking at them with no further end in mind , which might be the listless action of someone who can think of nothing else to do . |