Example sentences of "[noun] to look [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | A customer can also use a bank 's tax department to look after his tax returns and payments . |
| 2 | Mr Lanaghan returned to the scene to look for his attackers about 10 times … because he felt the police had little chance of success . |
| 3 | I know , er a gentlemen , like yourself , who 's looked after by his young son , by a younger son anyway , and he he 's given up his work to look after his father . |
| 4 | Mr Vafa has again asked the Law Society of Scotland to look into his grievance . |
| 5 | I 'm asking you , you sh you got loads to look at his hair . |
| 6 | This was intensely frustrating for everyone , because logic dictated that he was n't going to get much opportunity to look at his lines between strokes . |
| 7 | Nick said in a shrill voice , ‘ That 's a new blouse , Auntie Lou , ’ and Mr Evans turned from Carrie to look at his sister . |
| 8 | ‘ It is indecent for a Muslim to look at his private parts and his excretion . ’ |
| 9 | But she saw his lips move and her eyes fixed on them , for suddenly she had n't the courage to look into his eyes . |
| 10 | The person preparing to slam the door is Walter ( charming Gregory Floy ) , a landscape gardener who gave up his job to look after his GP wife Vivien ( Morag Hood ) and their ( inevitably ) stripped-floor , stripped-pine flat . |
| 11 | Deborah Sherwin , prosecuting , said Mr Holloway was able to pick out Eyles after police took him around the town to look for his assailant . |
| 12 | She would ask Sam to look after his brothers and sisters , and have the house clean and tidy on her return . |
| 13 | She lifted her head to look into his eyes , see his face , read his expression , but in the long shadows thrown by the torchlight it was impossible to read . |
| 14 | He made money by charging people to look at his coffins . |
| 15 | He felt a sudden sharp impulse to look to his left , but controlled it , his eyes never leaving the Empress . |
| 16 | She fought the urge to look at his mouth , terrified she would somehow betray herself . |
| 17 | Then , feeling a strong urge to look at his portrait again , she showered quickly , put on clean undies and an oatmeal skirt and blouse , and made her way to the long gallery . |
| 18 | A noble individual , such as Nithard himself , could reasonably expect his royal lord to look after his interests and reward faithful service with beneficia ( literally " good deeds " ) , meaning grants of lands or of honores , " offices " which carried lands with them : hence the linguistic distinction between honor and beneficium became blurred . |
| 19 | Society imposes an obligation to look after his parents , as a debt owed to them for his upbringing , and owed to society for passing on to his children the obligation to do the same for him . |
| 20 | He detached a hand to look at his watch . |
| 21 | Dr Livesey went to London , to find another doctor to look after his patients while he was away . |
| 22 | She moved round behind the crowd to look at his face . |
| 23 | Luckily for Chris his A Level assessor will come TO the school to look at his work , rather than expecting his project to arrive in the post . |
| 24 | Why was Roger Seelig told by someone giving medical advice several months after his trial began that he was on the verge of a mental breakdown , yet last week he was roaring up the M4 in his Porsche to look after his two properties ? |
| 25 | He even pulled back his cuff to look at his watch . |
| 26 | He held up his wrist to look at his watch by the nearest lamp . |
| 27 | The writer who seeks to control or dictate the responses of his reader outside the boundaries of the text itself , is comparable to a card-player who gets up periodically from his place , goes round the table to look at his opponent 's hand , and advises him what cards to lay . |
| 28 | In another passage our final text reads ‘ His words were as if meant for himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 29 | The magazine text brings in the paradox of public and yet as if private utterance : ‘ His words were as if spoken to himself , but he spoke them aloud , and he continued for some time to look at his sister like a man perplexed . ’ |
| 30 | The weekend with chums in Chichester did not seem , on the Monday 's showing , to have left Micky Banks much time to look at his lines . |