Example sentences of "his [noun] look [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they had filled the trolley and checked off everything on their list Stuart and his Mum looked for a checkout that was n't busy . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'll never get that , ’ said Gazzer flatly , heaving himself to his knees to look over the edge . |
| 3 | His shiny , elbow-patched suit hung on him , making his shoulders look like a coathanger . |
| 4 | The poor man was exhausted by the end of the performance and his cardigan looked like a sack ! |
| 5 | Adam craned his neck to look after the others . |
| 6 | The two Yorkshire Puddings sit on his lap looking at the world through angel hair matted with dried spit . |
| 7 | Kopyion sat at his desk looking at the major . |
| 8 | He sat at his desk looking over the same papers and repeatedly having the same conversations but unable to take decisions or achieve anything . |
| 9 | She gave an extra piece of meat to Noah , then told Oliver to hurry up as it was his job to look after the shop . |
| 10 | His black eyes flickered , and he drew the monk over by his sleeve to look at the pageant more closely . |
| 11 | His team looked like a gang of astronauts in desert-camouflage kit . |
| 12 | She 's coming up tonight , she 's getting what 's his name to look after the boys and she 's coming up |
| 13 | He delivered the letters and ran a little bit of a farm he owned , whilst his wife looked after the Post Office . |
| 14 | His wife looked like a film star and sounded like a docker , and on their previous visits I 'd managed to remain invisible while checking in her mink and his Crombie . |
| 15 | This man 's suit was as well-cut as Jeff 's , his tie matched his shirt , while his wife looked like a model , with gleaming fair hair , and a dress that had surely cost more than her own . |
| 16 | Mr Brocklebank , who had been sent by his wife to look at the house , reported back . |
| 17 | His head looked like a fudge sundae I swear to God , he could have put a spoon in his ear and a maraschino cherry on his crown and looked no worse . |
| 18 | His head looks like a baby 's arse . |
| 19 | Lifting further , he bent his head to look under the broad limb , once so thrilling with power . |
| 20 | Serve them right , he thought vindictively and then , imitated at his own childishness , turned his head to look at the other people arranged alongside him , the desk 's shining expanse of polished wood reflecting their faces as twisted white blobs . |
| 21 | He turned his head to look at the mantelpiece . |
| 22 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 23 | I helped with the cows and the chickens , and went up on the hills with Mr Parks and his dog to look at the sheep . |
| 24 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 25 | In other words , the crown which the Liber Vitae depicts Cnut as wearing late in his reign looks like a German imperial crown . |
| 26 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 27 | His tendency to look after the moment at the expense of the momentum can be a hindrance ; his thoroughness occasionally leans towards fussiness — and Janáček can sound too beautiful . |
| 28 | His thesis looked at the economic and environmental arguments over 40 and 44 tonne lorries . |
| 29 | His hotel looks like a remake of The Wild Bunch . |
| 30 | He 'd have spent all his time looking at the bloody birds in the Jungle instead of reading his cue-cards . |