Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 2 | The Captain looked about him with disgust . |
| 3 | He looked about him with interest . |
| 4 | Nona looked about her with interest , trying to identify which of the young men in her vicinity could possibly be policemen . |
| 5 | Polly looked about her in amazement as they flew higher and higher , and higher still across fields and meadows , until they reached the river that ran from the village to the town . |
| 6 | She looked after him in alarm . |
| 7 | He spun round and walked off and Maggie looked after him in dismay . |
| 8 | He said : ‘ When your brother Maurice 's wife was ill and David was an infant I understand you looked after him from time to time . ’ |
| 9 | Mum looked after me at home . |
| 10 | ‘ Lady , you adorn my house , ’ he said , then looked past her at Turakina . |
| 11 | Jehan looked past her at Alexei . |
| 12 | Topaz looked past him to Rossmayne , still talking to Benedicta . |
| 13 | Peskova turned and glanced at Sung , then looked past him at Seidemann . |
| 14 | As he drove up the main street and turned out of the town at the top , Sarah looked round her with pleasure and George studied her surreptitiously as she did so . |
| 15 | Ruth looked from him to Fand — the quiet face , the pale hair in the dusk . |
| 16 | Francis Morgan looked from him to Catherine Crane , obviously hardly knowing what he was doing , in an agony of loss . |
| 17 | Everyone looked from him to Suzi . |
| 18 | She looked from him to Tuan Ti Fo . |
| 19 | She looked from him to Michael and realised that her brother was going to go over to the man . |
| 20 | James looked from her to Martin , and back again . |
| 21 | Seve , Nick , Jose-Maria and Woosie are all superstars although Josie-Maria and Ian have n't proved it yet it terms of Majors and I looked upon them as bankers on the first two days . |
| 22 | While Communists had taken an active part in the 1926 General Strike and earned some support within the Miners ' Federation , most trade-union officials looked upon them as enemies trying to control the movement in the interests of a foreign organization . |
| 23 | Ludens looked upon him with relief . |
| 24 | I did not dawdle , but as I had to pass our post pigeonholes , from force of habit I looked in mine in case the second post had been sorted early . |
| 25 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 26 | Lloyd was concentrating on miming what looked to me like Mozart 's Turkish March . |
| 27 | Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have . |
| 28 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 29 | But he knew that the other Beastline creatures looked to him for guidance , and he had accepted the leadership they imposed on him , for he knew that there must always be those who govern and those who serve . |
| 30 | The primary determinant of service was still land , in the sense that a lord normally drew the core of his following from the area where his estates lay , although the men who looked to him for lordship would not necessarily be his own tenants . |