Example sentences of "[coord] [noun] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early or semi-retired people or housewives looking for a break often welcome a different four walls and a fresh interest . |
| 2 | THERE are still bargains to be found among the terraced property and this one on the books of J Trevor & Sons looks to be worthy of closer inspection . |
| 3 | It is most unlikely that a mother or father looking at a new-born child will be saying : — ‘ We have here a potential villain , who could , in a few years time be getting a living by robbery , violence or some other criminal activity . |
| 4 | Inevitably , human ethologists have kept to more circumscribed activities , such as children playing in a nursery or mothers looking after their babies . |
| 5 | In the rush for funds or to exploit the fusion fanaticism , few had the time or inclination to look beyond the surface and see the shaky foundations beneath . |
| 6 | They might be surfers looking for surf , or spectators looking for surfers , but mostly they are just wave-watchers , bearing witness to the shifting moods of the ocean , timing the pulse of the patient . |
| 7 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 8 | Jones & Smith looks like a simple theft case and the defendants should be so charged . |
| 9 | Dalziel and Pascoe looked at each other for a long moment after the door had slammed behind Evans . |
| 10 | You spent half and hour looking for lemons and salt . ’ |
| 11 | Rosie and Doyle looked at Bernard simultaneously . |
| 12 | Roberts ( 1984 , p. 180 ) found examples of women paying their mothers and mothers-in-law to look after their children while they went out to work . |
| 13 | We went into Julia 's room , and Holmes looked at the windows carefully . |
| 14 | Thursday afternoon me and mum looked after Daniel and Benjamin , cos erm , a relative of Sarah 's died a week before and the funeral was Thursday , so , I said to mum yes I 'd go up and help her |
| 15 | And William looked at him with an odd expression , and at first Preston thought he really did n't remember or was pretending he did n't , but then he smiled , even more oddly , and said , ‘ The Devil . ’ |
| 16 | The attempt by the power behind his throne , Warwick — now duke of Northumberland — to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure ; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor , then in her late thirties , married to Philip of Spain , and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII , Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration . |
| 17 | with that picture of Speed , rodders and Macca looking as if they have orgasamed . |
| 18 | The pitch was rock hard and slippy and Hereford looked to be sliding into trouble when Shrewsbury full-back , Graeme Worsley thumped his team into the lead in the second half . |
| 19 | Some people see this as the natural progression for the martial art to take ; purists and traditionalists look upon the changes with disdain . |
| 20 | He spent the morning and afternoon looking round Edinburgh . |
| 21 | February and March look to be the most volatile months and a stringent cutback or a rationalisation of your financial situation could be essential . |
| 22 | He was gone , and Morse looked around the area somewhat fecklessly . |
| 23 | Who wants to buy a home if the mortgage costs may rise , pay is set to fall and values look like following ? |
| 24 | I did n't say anything , and Will looked at me and laughed again . |
| 25 | ‘ Can I … go for a walk in the garden while I think it over ? ’ she blurted , and brother and sister looked at each other . |
| 26 | ‘ Darkfall , ’ said Rohmer in a tone of voice approaching real awe , and Cardiff looked at him hard again . |
| 27 | ‘ I do promise , ’ said Fergus , and Dierdriu looked at him very intently . |
| 28 | She and Marcus looked at me , she shrugged and they talked for a while . |
| 29 | And as our science correspondent David Whitehouse reports , it means we can now see what cities and building looked like hundreds of years ago . |
| 30 | She was still quietly fuming at dinnertime and Mitch looked at her warily , greatly relieved that he was able to speak to Ana . |