Example sentences of "look [prep] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The skylight in the ceiling looked as if covered by a dark purple cloth . |
| 2 | All other things equal , it looks as if producing more of the model is beneficial . |
| 3 | Changes in the container as well as in the product should be looked for and reported . |
| 4 | Despite his many sales of things from Douglas Cooper 's collection , a substantial amount of art remained , much of it in Switzerland , where it was looked after and catalogued by Billy 's curator , Dorothy Kozinski . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've got to be carefully looked after and tested . |
| 6 | The first need is to try and ensure that the churchyard is looked after and kept tidy . |
| 7 | Mayor Kropacek said : ‘ We must thank the Thun-Hohenstein family for having looked after and honoured the picture of the Annunciation for nearly half a century and for having now returned it , newly restored , to the church of the Holy Cross . |
| 8 | She was thought to have remained at Wroughton until delivered to Scampton late in 1958 or early 1959 , where she had commenced operations seventeen years earlier , to be looked after and displayed by the Station . |
| 9 | The whole day had been a strange one for a young lady like herself who had never been allowed to go out on her own , had been carefully looked after and protected at all times from the impact of the world in which most people lived . |
| 10 | I am very concerned about women , their rights and how they are looked after and protected at work . |
| 11 | Lying in bed and being looked after and enveloped in love , by day and by night . |
| 12 | And if we lived in the country then it would n't be me coming home every night whacked out and wanting to be looked after and having a squawking infant instead . |
| 13 | The navy was the guarantee that Great Britain 's interests elsewhere could be looked after and gave her enormous strategical advantages outside Europe . |
| 14 | Milton Keynes has been running a befriender scheme where persistent offenders are looked after and advised by adults … it was working … but yesterday closed because of a shortage of cash … |
| 15 | It 's important to go somewhere with a good kindergarten where they can just be looked after or taught to ski . |
| 16 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 17 | Yesterday Mrs McIntyre said she had received a letter saying the matter was being looked into and apologising for the distress caused to Mrs Morrison . |
| 18 | F. H. A. Marshall 's Physiology of Reproduction ( 1910 ) , in examining current views , found that menstruation was often seen as a disease symptom so that ‘ the phenomenon of menstruation must be looked upon as belonging to the borderland of pathology ’ . |
| 19 | It was raggedness linked with raving and ruin , such as none there had looked at nor dreamed of . |
| 20 | The main priorities for community and economic development in the inner Bristol waterside area must first be looked at when deciding how to improve the area . |
| 21 | its them that should actually be looked at as opposed to the , to the vehicle 's themselves . |
| 22 | Whether it is just looked at or heard , acted out or painted , a symbol arouses not only thought but delight , fear , awe , horror and the rest |
| 23 | You get really annoyed when they do n't know everything and they do and they ca n't answer your questions , apart from your parents I do n't think there 's one person , well me anyway , there 's not one person I 've looked at and thought oh well that 's what should be done . |
| 24 | He said when Mr Jones was taken to hospital to have his injuries looked at and photographed , he did not take the opportunity to be taken straight out of the Roberts ' home . |
| 25 | A a at the time , they were trying to get this place looked at and surveyed , and everything to get it , you know to see what they could do about it , get it closed down , but er they had n't got that far with that then . |
| 26 | should n't we use , try every effort to try and carry it off , perhaps that 's one that Jehovah 's looked at and said well there 's an area that they need to learn about , that need to understand a little more , they know nothing about that particular area , in the scriptures , now that 's a good one for them to have , we 'll make sure they get that , that way they 're going to learn , so if ever we always get the easy ones , the ones we know , the ones we 've done before , we think I can handle this , you never learn anything do we ? |
| 27 | It is unlikely you can accomplish what generations of warreners may have looked at and scratched their heads over before moving on . |
| 28 | In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed , with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness . |
| 29 | Each case must be looked at and dealt with on its own merits considering the circumstances and amounts involved . |
| 30 | All of our departments are built round customer needs therefore they need to be regularly looked at and updated . |