Example sentences of "look [prep] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | A senior Special Branch officer said last night : ‘ It looks to us as if one person kept replaying the conversation to ham operators . |
| 3 | Crown of thorns looks to us like a plague ; a disease of the reef . |
| 4 | ‘ It looks to us like Ralston 's Fruitshop , ’ Harriet said . |
| 5 | We must admit that it looks to us like a very good match , and it is only because she is marrying Steven that she has such an idealized view of what men and marriage are really like . |
| 6 | I think he must have just looked at us as guys who could take care of themselves , no problem . ’ |
| 7 | Were we going to go for impersonal macro-solutions , or were we going to realise that the people were looking for us as their leaders to provide an answer to their difficulties ? |
| 8 | If they come looking for us with tusk and fang you 'd better be ready with that Winchester peashooter of yours . " |
| 9 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 10 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 11 | ’ Famlio is looking for us in other sectors . |
| 12 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 13 | And looking behind us in an emotional sense can be of great preventive value . |
| 14 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 15 | He was given lots of cuddles because he kept looking at us as if to say ‘ What has happened to me ? ’ ‘ |
| 16 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 17 | ‘ But what used to make me a bit uptight was people looking at us like some wild , eccentric set-up . |
| 18 | We felt them looking at us from behind the lace and from the shadowy hallways , peering through their caterpillar curtains at these strangers with clean shoes and light , impractical clothes . |
| 19 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 20 | " This sure is mighty civilized of you , m'sieur , to look after us like this , " he drawled , letting a gracious smile play across his face . |
| 21 | ‘ There were all these groups or whatever , and none of them look like us on TV . |
| 22 | If we are to continue to meet the rapidly growing needs of those who look to us for care and prevention , we urgently need you to share the challenge with us . |
| 23 | But the union just look on us as if we are employed by them . |
| 24 | Wrens rarely get a real ship , you see , and some of the old hands look on us as intruders , to say the least . |
| 25 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 26 | Pay what get , cost the earth , I mean look at us at . . |
| 27 | In Hungary , the process industry looked to us for safety advice and provided our first contract in Eastern Europe . |
| 28 | The fat man looked at us without enthusiasm . |
| 29 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |
| 30 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |