Example sentences of "look to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president , in the modern age , is the key political actor and the public constantly looks to him for initiatives , services and solutions . |
| 2 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 3 | No one who has heard a 3-year-old , lately able to utter only single words , saying things like ‘ The difficulty with me is , I do n't want to go to bed ’ , or ‘ it looks to me as if my brother has been at it ’ can fail to toy with a Chomskian or Cartesian notion of innate ideas , the deep structures of language being in us from before birth . |
| 4 | It looks to me as if the situation was that the Inquisition would have liked to do nothing but was forced to do so by the detailed and documented evidence claiming that Galileo was in fact a heretic . |
| 5 | But this girl her name is Monica she looks to me as if she 's suicidal , she could do anything . " |
| 6 | ‘ It looks to me as if there 's some system of getting service that you do n't grasp . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ It looks to me as if someone tried to murder him , ’ whispered Dexter as an afterword . |
| 8 | It looks to me as if the Doctor manipulated Paula Engado 's feelings with a faked message from her adulterous lover Cheryl Russell to the effect that Cheryl would n't leave her husband , Sam . |
| 9 | And it looks to me as if you do , too ? ’ |
| 10 | It looks to me as if we 've forgotten how to retreat . |
| 11 | He stiffened when he saw them and Devlin said cheerfully , ‘ Very pretty , son , but it looks to me as if someone 's been spoiling your good looks . ’ |
| 12 | And looking at the traffic on the railways , it looks to me as if it 's all absolutely wonderful , hunkydory and everything else , so er unless you 're er er bl s No no no no all the trains right up to the er nine minutes past one Harrogate train er , and the four minutes past one Plymouth train , all seem to be bang on train . |
| 13 | And it looks to me as if you two lovely people were just made for each other ! ’ |
| 14 | It looks to me as if it 's going to blooming rain again . |
| 15 | What he does have , though , is a fearsome grip on the band which looks to me like a dictatorship and which he maintains is just the way things have worked out . |
| 16 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 17 | I may be hard , but it looks to me like an excuse for not facing the real world — perhaps a welcome excuse . ’ |
| 18 | I mean , she could have been er in love with Rochester but it looks to me like a beginning of an idea , you know , that er there are circumstances in which she er |
| 19 | The world looks to them for decisive leadership on this issue , as on others " . |
| 20 | A senior Special Branch officer said last night : ‘ It looks to us as if one person kept replaying the conversation to ham operators . |
| 21 | Crown of thorns looks to us like a plague ; a disease of the reef . |
| 22 | ‘ It looks to us like Ralston 's Fruitshop , ’ Harriet said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But if you 're looking to me for a list of who really makes which strings , I 've found that asking straight questions does n't always get you straight answers . |
| 25 | I have this kitchen full of people , all looking to me for instructions like it was me who organized this . |
| 26 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 27 | Mr Hurd needs no minders , but the 60 Tory MPs who declined to support Mrs Thatcher for leader last week , plus MEPs , this week 's Lords report and many industrialists will be looking to him for a more emollient performance in difficult circumstances . |
| 28 | Looking to her for comfort was like looking through a drawer for something which you knew was not there because you had looked so often before : you knew what was there — in painful and tedious detail — but there was nothing that you wanted . |
| 29 | In fact , even without knowing it , he may be looking to her as a vehicle by which he might rediscover his lost self , which did n't have the chance to blossom earlier . |
| 30 | However , as we saw , this type of personality hangs on to others , looking to them for affirmation and praise . |