Example sentences of "look [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must look for a scheme that will ensure that that does not happen again . |
| 2 | We would look for a station where we could park , say goodbye and then go home . |
| 3 | Birmingham-based ACT Group Plc 's ACT Computer Support Ltd and Professional Support Centre , an organisation providing personal computer-based software support , have been signed up by personal computer manufacturer Tandy Grid Systems Corp to offer computer support services to its customers : ACT will deal with on-site technical support , consulting , training and additional installations , while Professional will look after a hot-line and the initial diagnostic process . |
| 4 | The church was designed by Mr Henry Veitch and , according to the stipulations of Portuguese law at that time regarding Protestant places of worship , did not look like a church and had no bells . |
| 5 | Her hair is a really short , blunt cut but my hair is so thick that it would look like a triangle or a big hat ! |
| 6 | It can so easily look like a stunt or be represented as a desire wilfully to shape malleable material . |
| 7 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 8 | But the projections on which the " cut " is based far exceed six others from expert groups and serve to make the target look like a reduction when in practice it is not . |
| 9 | They shepherded their charges with a cheerful , maternal competence as if to reassure them that the place might look like a prison but was as gently beneficent as a nursing home and that they were only there for their own good . |
| 10 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 11 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 12 | Yes , she did look like a goose or better still , a gosling , lumpy and unformed ; like a German Royal , with a smooth tight bosomy droop in front , and a face with protruding nose and gobbly lips . |
| 13 | But er it does n't look like a steeplechase but it is in fact |
| 14 | ‘ Do I look like a mugger or a potential rapist ? ’ |
| 15 | He said she feared she would look like a money-grabber if she went to court to get the possessions after the divorce so he agreed to sign them over . |
| 16 | And we 'll actually look in a minute or two at the different aspects of the application , the different layers of the product , and how those communicate . |
| 17 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ More people now appreciate that you ca n't look at a relationship and say , ‘ It has n't got a hope ’ . |
| 19 | Ask most people the time of day and they 'll usually look at a watch or a clock . |
| 20 | ‘ Even I can look at a gauge and make out when it 's on the red ! ’ |
| 21 | Often times when I was going into the country after orders and so on in the autumn , I 'd look at a field that had been freshly ploughed up after the harvest ; and I 'd think to myself how much like a piece of Doncaster Cord it was — colour , straight lines and everything . ’ |
| 22 | He 'd look at a problem and come up with a totally different answer to the one you 'd expect … |
| 23 | Paintings erm have the power to take you back in time , I can look at a painting and remember something that 's happened yesterday or years and years ago and as a small child , looking at this painting I remembered as a small child seeing for the first time erm the sea dipping into er , sorry the sun dipping into , into the sea and being horrified I was convinced that the heat of the sun would boil the oceans and the world dry and it reminded me for an awful lot of my childhood and I 'm sure if I 'd seen this painting years ago it would of persuaded me otherwise , erm this is called In A Days Work Satisfaction in a days work , chosen not given , eating the laxed food , face turned to steer a sun , making cloth into a gown and giving colour to the side of a boat |
| 24 | There was Pete in his class who really needed to shave twice a day , who had a deep voice and a very hairy chest , and he was a known bender ; and there was Stuart , who could n't look at a cloud or a diagram in TD lessons or even sometimes a house without seeing a version of the female anatomy , and lie was as smooth as a babe . |
| 25 | ‘ No one , ’ said a judge who had watched Slime , ‘ could ever again look at a pond and fail to remember that it was somebody 's home , ’ |
| 26 | well no , because what you can do know is you can go to somebody who will sit down with a mini computer and that 's what you need , a mini computer and will sit down and will look at a job and will say right , if you take this job , it can also claim Family Credit of so much , and , and they actually do a , a sort of alternative benefit calculation , and what they do is they look at , if you take this job and take all the other things into account , will you be better off ? |
| 27 | A thatcher can look at a roof and tell you who thatched it by the pattern . ’ |