Example sentences of "looks [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sincerely believes that her grandmother looks after her in the spirit world . |
| 2 | The inquirer does not believe current scientific results , but simply looks upon them as the current stage on the route to a final description of reality . |
| 3 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 6 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 7 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 8 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 9 | However , the individualistic approach of modern Darwinism which looks at it from the point of view of the reproductive success of individual genes , is n't like the older group selectionistic thinking was , prejudiced in favour of any group . |
| 10 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 12 | Somebody looks at you in the wrong way some morning , you know , what 's the matter with you , that type of thing you know . |