Example sentences of "look [prep] [noun sg] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Materials are generally stainless steel , porcelain-covered cast iron , or the new plastic substance which looks like marble and makes a neat and effective all-in-one counter and sink . |
| 2 | He looks like hell and sounds awful … the nascent Mancunian drawl is weak and strained , his hands shake , and there 's a muscle by his jaw that keeps twitching violently every time there 's a lull in the conversation |
| 3 | He looks like hell and sounds awful , but then , as he 's the first to admit , he always did . |
| 4 | I think if one looks at life and says : ‘ If I was doing that job , what are the conditions I would like to work in ? ’ , and then put them into operation , people will probably think it 's about right . |
| 5 | Anya looks at Rainbow and shakes her head . |
| 6 | Robert Thirtle is bored bachelor Richard , stuck minding the fort while everyone else is having fun ; looking for love while guarding a lunatic prisoner . |
| 7 | On all three occasions , peace had created unemployment among soldiers who were looking for adventure and pay . |
| 8 | QPR manager Gerry Francis will be looking for consistency and said : ‘ Rangers were always capable of beating the teams at the top one week and losing to the bottom side the next . |
| 9 | She is looking for work and thinks she may be forced to move to London in search of a job . |
| 10 | Some as young as eleven and twelve , these ‘ migrant labourers ’ went looking for work and did not always find it , turning to other less than legal ways of earning their bread . |
| 11 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 12 | On arrival , however , Mr Cristiani said he was looking for reconciliation and wanted a ceasefire in El Salvador . |
| 13 | Transend are continually looking for shareware that spans a wide spectrum . |
| 14 | I hovered over the sideboard pretending to be looking for cutlery and strained my ears to catch the conversation . |
| 15 | ‘ You have to strike a happy medium between looking like royalty and looking like a housewife , ’ a helpful Mrs Tony Newton , wife of the Leader of the Commons explained after she and four Cabinet Minsters ' wives for being lip-glossed and back-combed into shape by the Mail on Sunday . |
| 16 | As she became a phenomenon across the world Kylie and her organisation also began looking at sponsorship and allowing the star 's image to be associated with High Street products . |
| 17 | ’ That ‘ familiar in fiction ’ is deadly , suggesting as it does that the author has stopped looking at life and has purloined his Andre from the picaresque , in which rogues are invariably charming and whose advances are never rejected . |
| 18 | These have moved away from a concern with what young people did in their spare time and the transition from school to work towards looking at unemployment and state policies . |
| 19 | But they are unlikely to make real progress unless they are helped to formulate their own ideas explicitly and then look for evidence and compare their views to those of others . |
| 20 | Look for music that takes the plunge into the infinities of outer or inner space , rather than music which paddles through the shallows of everyday feeling . |
| 21 | Never keep callers waiting while you look for information or try to transfer them , etc. , without explaining what you are doing and giving them a chance to call back if they are in a hurry or if they are calling long-distance . |
| 22 | The purchase of dish and warewashers is an important investment and caterers should look for equipment that offers long-term energy savings costs . |
| 23 | Mr Boesky is free to leave the centre during the day to look for work or meet his lawyers , but has to report back by 6pm . |
| 24 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 25 | A variety of comprehension exercise types help the learner to look for information and to recognize language forms . |
| 26 | They had gone to Vadinamia to look for phetam and had found a well-known courier — the only courier there — was also had a known connection with Ardakke . |
| 27 | When a manager is faced with no financial resources he has to look for youth or experience to fill out his squad . |
| 28 | The reason for this is traditional : Roman friends were often called on to look after property or to care for members of a family . |
| 29 | WOULD YOU LIKE TO LOOK LIKE madonna or bardot ? |
| 30 | Rather than simply consuming pop ( which makes clever little references to its commodity status ) we should look to music that consumes US . |