Example sentences of "looking [prep] the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ They 're in here all the time looking through the clothes and you know exactly what 's on their minds . |
| 2 | And waking up about a quarter past ten , go downstairs and make tea and toast takes the paper up , I take Freeman 's catalogue put the , the wireless on and he 's looking through the paper and I 'm looking through Freeman 's catalogue saying |
| 3 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 4 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 5 | In our half-hour chat , I meet Little Brother ( ‘ He always comes in when you want to shag your girlfriend ’ ) ; the Gits ( ‘ They like looking through the obituaries and camping out next to accident black spots ’ ) ; Lee and Lance ( ‘ a couple of garage owners , they spend all their time putting Garfield stickers on cars ’ ) ; and Euro-Man ( ‘ as far as he 's concerned , the Euro-Parliament is just one big Amsterdam squat ’ ) . |
| 6 | Given the purposive approach to construction now adopted by the courts in order to give effect to the true intentions of the legislature , the fine distinctions between looking for the mischief and looking for the intention in using words to provide the remedy are technical and inappropriate . |
| 7 | Staff had spent most of Friday afternoon and evening looking for the child and the owner , Alan Tym , had gone back again late that night to double check that James had not crawled behind a counter or into a cupboard and fallen asleep . |
| 8 | Then he went down in this loose scrum , should n't have been there , but he was always a bit of a hero , and I put my foot in looking for the ball and there he was . |
| 9 | Okay so if you can learn to concentrate on looking for the patterns and looking for , Oh well what sort of word is this , is it going to end in a K end in c sound so it 'll be C K. |
| 10 | One visiting history adviser looking at a display of old washing equipment got the infants to explain by picking up and examining an old flat iron , looking for the flex and asking " But how did they plug this in ? " |
| 11 | Shrewsbury stood around there , apparently looking for the offside and in the end it was an awful effort at goal . |
| 12 | He said : ‘ The whole country will be looking for the result and most of them will be hoping the underdogs do well . |
| 13 | But Hooper has earned a reprieve with Liverpool looking for the solidity and assurance he showed in last year 's UEFA Cup battle with Italian club Genoa . |
| 14 | Mentally or instinctively he is looking for the pattern and his antennae are an outward expression of that inward instinct . |
| 15 | I understand at one time it was possible to cross the river by means of stepping stones but these are no longer in position and the landowner finds that walkers wander along the river bank looking for the path and for a way to cross the river . |
| 16 | Along with the fitters at the tunnel , looking after the locos and slushers in the tunnel and all the rest of the |
| 17 | Like their fairy-tale sister , they do all the boring but crucial jobs — looking after the keyboard and screen , filing and retrieving data — but get few thanks for it . |
| 18 | Apart from looking after the home and having babies , she is still expected to do most of the manual work on the land as her husband may be working abroad or in Funchal or just resting . |
| 19 | If we go back socially to the days of the extended family , women did not have to play that role in those days , a women , a woman 's place was very much in the home , looking after the home and not much else . |
| 20 | I , I can remember all the activity and er when it was erected there was a fella from the First World War , he lost a leg in the war and he was in charge of the billiards room and the tables , when they built the club itself the front part used to be devoted to card games and then they installed a billiards hall and the tables and as I say a chap named he used to live in Street , but he was , a lost a leg during the war and they found him the job of looking after the tables and marking |
| 21 | In fact you sound as if you 've hardly a minute to yourself between looking after the grandchildren and caring for your husband . |
| 22 | Yes , it is gon na be a long-term project , yes , the money is n't there to actually just go out and re-nationalize them , but by regulation approved elected bodies also with trade union members on them elected bodies then I 'm sure we can start looking after the public and not the financiers and the accountants . |
| 23 | She thought of Tony , back in Manchester , big , blond Tony working on the buses to get some cash together , looking after the bedsit and the cat , writing her long letters . |
| 24 | For the reasons that I gave in answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Bexleyheath ( Mr. Townsend ) , I believe that we are looking after the interests and future of the wood as thoroughly as any reasonable person could . |
| 25 | And they 're not coming back for their education ; they 're coming back for the support that Arbour gives them , so they may spend more time with Monica in the nursery looking after the baby and gradually they 'll move back into the classroom in their own time and get back to their exams . |
| 26 | ‘ Our business was looking after the traveller and our mission was to provide security and peace of mind , ’ says John Petersen , vice president of public affairs for Travel Related Services . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's really looking after the housing and welfare for the 2,000 married families on the site . ’ |
| 28 | Some of them were kept really busy just er looking after the brakes and and they they had to er check the er the erm hooks . |
| 29 | We now have two Group Executive members responsible for two key parts of the world — looking after the Americas and Australia and looking after Europe . |
| 30 | However , in the majority of households , responsibility for looking after the family and home goes hand-in-hand with money management . |