Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That he 'd gone out to look for her on the road and across the clunch pit field , returning alone half an hour later . |
| 2 | We told him to look for us in the evening . |
| 3 | It hit the platform fence and ran under the carriage ; as quick as a flash the boy darted past Charlotte and Albert and tried to look for it under the wheels . |
| 4 | Of course , that is what we have to look for , and , of course , there are inevitably going to be occasions when we are compelled to look for it outside the four corners of the language that the draftsman has used . |
| 5 | She 's too stuck up to look for it in the back of a cab just yet , but it 'll come to it one day when she gets a few more years on her , even the milkman wo n't be safe and she 'll be grateful . |
| 6 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 7 | As well as coaching many of Britain 's leading international crews , Spracklen is a key member of the Oxford University team , and he will be returning from Canada in March to look after them for the last fortnight before the Boat Race . |
| 8 | It is of course necessary for someone to look after them in the home , and though there are some back-up services available , the responsibility mainly falls on one person — usually a close relative or friend , usually a woman . |
| 9 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 11 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 12 | Michael Harvey was assigned to look after him inside the house . |
| 13 | You could decide to work at a time when your partner or a friend is round to see the baby , or arrange for someone — a childminder or relative — to look after her for a few hours each week . |
| 14 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 15 | Alice afterwards — in an effort to safeguard her position — claimed that it was the queen who had summoned her and who had promised to look after her in the future . |
| 16 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 17 | Madame 's eyes seemed to look past her into a different time . |
| 18 | As I have said , to look in them around the countryside is much like taking rural rides with Cobbett . |
| 19 | My room-mate happening to be a policeman , I was at a loss whether to look upon it as a special honour or a special precaution , mine host putting into my room a representative of the force . |
| 20 | The first is to look upon it as a simple riddle to which the Scribes seemingly had no answer . |
| 21 | Now , for the first time … they are asked to look upon it as a question of human nature , of equal interest to men and women , as a question of the heart , the soul , the affections , the whole moral being . |
| 22 | It flatters the British mind , and certainly the English mind , to look upon it as the envy of the world . |
| 23 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
| 24 | No-one could label him ‘ collaborator ’ , and a wide spectrum of the population began to look to him in the chaotic aftermath of the Japanese defeat . |
| 25 | It began to look to him like a conspiracy . |
| 26 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 27 | Many people these days have a rather negative concept of health in that they tend to look on it as a state in which one does not feel ill or has no pain — in other words , a state of absence of illness . |
| 28 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 29 | She was n't much of a drinker either — did n't even particularly like the taste of alcohol , but she 'd have to look on it as a necessary medicine . |
| 30 | She was determined not to look on it as the ending of a chapter but the making of a new beginning . |