Example sentences of "to look [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 's going to look after them for a little while |
| 3 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I was assigned to look after him for a while , ’ Harvey answered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It is time that someone began to look after you for a change , Julia , ’ he said seriously . |
| 7 | Unless you can do so your holding will deteriorate or you will spend a small fortune paying outsiders to look after it for you . |
| 8 | Making a will with a solicitor also has the advantage of that you 'll have a copy , he 's likely to look after it for you if you want him to . |
| 9 | He had some money saved and wanted the Army captain to look after it for Jeannie . |
| 10 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 11 | Proper names are paradigm referential symbols , and it seems natural to look to them for clues . |
| 12 | It is unnecessary as regards persons whom the husband has not by his previous conduct induced to look to him for payment ; it is ineffectual as regards those who do not happen to see the advertisement . |
| 13 | What it means in practice is that just as a wife has no entitlement to supplementary benefit ( SB ) in her own right — her husband must claim for her as his ‘ dependant ’ — so a single woman living with a male lover may be denied SB and required to look to him for support . |
| 14 | So perhaps it 's time to look to ourselves for fun , not to chemicals that make us edgy , paranoid , ill — and broke . |
| 15 | On 16th April 1973 the estate agents had written to the defendants drawing attention to the existence of the counter-inflationary measures then in force and concluding with the sentence : ‘ I would also confirm that should you be successful in acquiring these premises then it will be necessary for us to look to you for payment of our fees as based on the commercial scales of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . ’ |
| 16 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 17 | Claudia said , hardly daring to look at him for fear of betraying how much she loved him . |
| 18 | But Nathan Bryce had only to look at her for her heart to skip a beat , then race out of control . |
| 19 | Obviously , she thought sourly , checking to make sure that no hanky-panky was going on under the table between Piers and her , or else he was still so infatuated that he could n't bear not to look at her for too long . |
| 20 | He had only to look at her for all her firmly made resolutions to begin to melt away . |
| 21 | Nigel turned his head to look at me for the first time and smiled in a kindly manner . |
| 22 | When I 'd completed this process I turned to the mirror to look at myself for a last time . |
| 23 | ‘ I just want to look at you for a moment or two . ’ |
| 24 | There is an inexplicable rightness about it which makes me want to look at it for ages . |
| 25 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |
| 26 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 27 | We have n't had time to read the whole story today ; can I encourage you to look at it for yourself sometime this week ? |
| 28 | I would imagine i , i , if they went to look at it for fire and , or anything like that you 'd be in the wrong cos you could n't get out the kitchen . |