Example sentences of "[adj] and look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Apparently you keep the path clear and look after the little hut ; does your father come here much ? ’ |
| 2 | Others might be talking to their girlfriends or just idly smoking and looking at the sky . |
| 3 | From Table 4.1 it can be seen that almost one-third of IT postgraduates would be unemployed and looking for work at the end of their course . |
| 4 | I would say that if you 're sixty years old and looking for meaning in life you should not be listening to this kind of music . |
| 5 | ‘ Cuj ach , ’ one of the slaves begged , breaking free and looking towards the travellers . |
| 6 | The ladies , sisters , were English and looking for somewhere cheap but clean while they stayed on in Florence to attend art classes . |
| 7 | So what happens if we do something similar and look at the world through a single object — the humble apple , for instance ? |
| 8 | The change in employment may not always be so favourable as yesterday 's either , but the market is now starting to feel bullish and looking for a FT-SE of 3,000 by next year . |
| 9 | We either say we are serious and look for ways to achieve that or we say we 've failed . |
| 10 | Must be handsome , intelligent and witty and looking for a fun-to-be-with female student . |
| 11 | ‘ Thing is , Barbs barged in at an inconvenient moment when my brothers were moving some stuff into my place , and they came over all paranoid and looked at her very old-fashioned , and while I know they would n't do anything to her , now she 's gone missing I ca n't help wondering . |
| 12 | I turned it as low as possible and looked round the blind at Frankenstein 's house . |
| 13 | He was grim-faced and looked as if he had not slept , but he offered them freshly made coffee and raised a smile for Catherine . |
| 14 | It was not until she saw the colour of the light — deep warm gold — that she realised how long she must have been asleep and looked at her watch . |
| 15 | However , when you meet Sean Young she 's disarmingly polite and looks as if butter would n't melt in her mouth . |
| 16 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 17 | The rapist is described as black , five foot seven inches tall and looks like a body-builder . |
| 18 | She was six feet tall and looked like a gorgeous transvestite , possibly the beneficiary of some dirty-minded sex-change operation , over in California there . |
| 19 | but you , they , they are , they 're very sweet , the second class citizens of all , I mean they say they 're cherished and looked after and |
| 20 | Mary pointed out that it takes a while to become objective and to look at yourself without flinching . |
| 21 | Oliver liked things to be finished and shiny and to look as if they cost a lot . |
| 22 | Each party tended to see its own central ideal and to look at the others concerned as a perverse distraction from it . |
| 23 | All he had wanted was to make her comfortable and look after her . |
| 24 | He braced his hand on the staircase rail at his left and looked around him into the shadows . |
| 25 | In future we could extend their kind of insurance benefit to people who are divorced , separated or unmarried and looking after children . |
| 26 | Down they came , her two big sons , dark like their father , square and looking as if they had been manufactured by a toy firm to look like younger versions of a father in a game . |
| 27 | Here is the appalling Bliss family in their anyone-for-tennis country home : actress mother , artistic father , precocious children — all of them vain and selfish and looking for amusement and romantic intrigue from their weekend guests . |
| 28 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 29 | Any normal man would find it a pleasure just to sit still and look at her , drinking her in . |
| 30 | Sergeant Potter was elderly and looked like someone out of Dad 's Army . |