Example sentences of "[verb] look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 2 | Jane has looked up from her papers . |
| 3 | Take this tiny sample : Leopold Bloom , the Dublin Jew , with his touching mixture of timorousness and courage , has looked in for a few moments at a church as a Mass is ending . |
| 4 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 5 | I guess we 'll never know looking back on it , various things can be traced to David and other things to Tony . |
| 6 | She stopped looking up at a rocket : a towering metal redwood that had never flown because the ones that flew were junk scattered across the Gulf of Mexico . |
| 7 | And then , because I stopped looking out for her , I stopped seeing her altogether . |
| 8 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 9 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 10 | Every one of those horses he has to look round for fo all four feet up . |
| 11 | Everything comes down to the fact that each one of us has to look out for ourselves , because nobody else cares a damn . |
| 12 | There 's not much else we want to look around at is there ? |
| 13 | " You want to look out for those , " he said . |
| 14 | Lady Street had returned to what must have been normal for any morning at this time ; the delivery vans had gone , there was sporadic traffic in the one-way street , and people had no time to stand about gawping at the bookshop though they slowed their pace in passing and tried to look in without appearing to do so . |
| 15 | She tried to look down at her feet , and could only just see them . |
| 16 | Some foods , however , are seasonal , so when it comes to buying fruit , vegetables and salad , for example , you will need to look out for those products that are in plentiful supply at the time , and consequently more reasonably priced . |
| 17 | At a wall corner I stopped to look back at Thwaite 's collection of stone houses shimmering in the dale . |
| 18 | They stopped to look back at him . |
| 19 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 20 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 21 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't , ’ said Damian in the cramped interior beside her , then moved to look out of her window , his body pressing against hers , one powerful arm across her , his hard chest against her breasts . |
| 23 | All teachers are reminded to look out for and encourage new potential teachers . |
| 24 | All teachers are reminded to look out for and encourage new potential teachers . |
| 25 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 26 | She strained to look up at him . |
| 27 | Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe . |
| 28 | Not that he wants to look out of the window any longer . |
| 29 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 30 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |