Example sentences of "look [prep] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their defence solicitor said Merlin had been well looked after for five years . |
| 2 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 3 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 4 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 5 | ‘ There you are — you 'd better have one to remind you what a foetus looks like at 12 weeks , ’ an enthusiastic PR said . |
| 6 | [ See Fig. 1 ] ( To get an idea of what a tetrahedron looks like in three dimensions , look at one of those awkwardly-shaped cardboard milk cartons . |
| 7 | Put crudely , the over-50s may be looked upon in one of two ways . |
| 8 | Th it was being looked at at one point |
| 9 | The special case of a disseminated labour force , the railway and other communications workers , will be looked at for 1922 . |
| 10 | It 's a serious problem which has to be looked at on two levels . |
| 11 | When the morning came they saw all the gardeners and weeders coming up to the wall and every one was looked at by three guards . |
| 12 | This may be looked at from two points of view : |
| 13 | Looked at from one point of view , snow is the wonder of the world , provided you have a child 's appreciation of magic and can withdraw quickly from the cold into the warmth of the indoors . |
| 14 | However , the question of equity and the marketability of equity is a contentious problem and can be looked at in two ways , from the perspective of the international firm and also the national one . |
| 15 | Costs have to be looked at in two respects , first , the costs which may be ordered to be paid by one of the parties to the other in litigation , and , secondly , the costs which a client is obliged to pay the solicitor . |
| 16 | This distinction between the roles in a drama and the actors who play the roles corresponds to the fact that the data of field research must always be looked at in two dimensions . |
| 17 | Housing differs from the other services we have looked at in three ways : first , it is a durable asset and this gives exclusive rights of use ; second , housing is the biggest single item of expenditure in the budgets of most households ; and third , the housing market is dominated by an extensive and powerful private sector ( cf. education and health services ) . |
| 18 | We 'll be looking for between 5 and 15 mph ( 8 to 24 km/h ) coming from a warm part of the globe . |
| 19 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 20 | These last bear looking at for one thing only , and that is the rich , exquisite Basque family names carved on them : Iharour-Lascagne , Uharretuko Elissalde-Olaizola . |
| 21 | So that was me with a habit and two kids to look after on 36 quid a week social … . |
| 22 | It 's like today when Jess put on that s that tight skirt that 's what I would look like in one of them , I 'd go out . |
| 23 | Look at at one time the and you had er well you 've got Johnnie Walkers but there are not as many works in that either . |
| 24 | And that 's what it looked like in nineteen seventy seven . |
| 25 | ‘ Listos ? ’ they asked , and we looked at at one another , not able to explain our situation . |
| 26 | Interestingly , this process of eliminating the unique combination of circumstances in which language happens ( a process known technically as idealization ) results in the same kind of sentences as those invented examples for translation or grammatical analysis which we looked at in 1.2 . |