Example sentences of "she [vb mod] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may look like a fire-breathing dragon , but butter would n't melt in her mouth . |
| 2 | She may look like mother , but mother would have turned in her grave if she could have seen that girl today ! ’ |
| 3 | Before she left the party , she must look for the witch 's hat . |
| 4 | If Britain was to survive in the new world of rival empires she must look to the fitness of her population , both for the military and for the economic struggle . |
| 5 | She must look on Edward 's party as an opportunity not to be missed . |
| 6 | She must look at two other things , hard and solid , so that she would be strong for the battle ahead . |
| 7 | Isabel remained very still for a minute , thinking about how much worse she must look with red-rimmed eyes and tears mingling with the dirt on her face . |
| 8 | She must look about her again , and try to be useful too . |
| 9 | As luck would have it , when she was certain that , shiny-faced and wet-headed , she must look about her worst , it was at that moment that the outer door opened and Ven came in . |
| 10 | Robyn smiled to herself as she charged down the motorway and imagined how she must look in such a battered , ramshackle old thing . |
| 11 | She grabbed the wrap and hugged it round her , agonisingly aware of the swollen-eyed wreck she must look in the brightness . |
| 12 | ‘ Perhaps she has children she must look after ? ’ |
| 13 | But with a brother and sister whom she must look after for they had nothing left but her . |
| 14 | After an evening of work here , she felt she must look like a cod or haddock herself with dull eyes and open mouth . |
| 15 | She should look on the bright side , she kept trying to tell herself . |
| 16 | At another time , He told her that she had conceived again , and when she , fearful that this would interrupt her ‘ contemplation ’ , asked how she should look after the child , Christ replied casually that he would find it a keeper . |
| 17 | She should look after herself , as well , and he would see her in five years ' time . |
| 18 | My sister Ellen , sir , who has had charge of my first-born this three long years , her husband William died of blood poisoning in September and she is now alone and I have written even before I heard of the plan to go to Rome to beg her to come out here to me with Oreste and if she does , as I think she will , having no other family or ties , then she might look after my house and other child for the winter and we would all profit without further trouble . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She 'll look for me if I do n't . |
| 20 | I hope she 'll be all right in the country , it 's not much of a life for her , but she 'll look after herself . |
| 21 | She 'll look after you . |
| 22 | people who 've got money she 's all she 'll look after them but she 's not looking after them blokes . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh yes , my mother is staying with us — so she 'll look after Mildred . ’ |
| 24 | wo , ho , ho , she 'll look after the |
| 25 | I wan na see Pat see if she 'll look after Aaron on Friday night , but Gary says he does n't want Tim and Lorraine having him cos they smoke like a chimney |
| 26 | She advanced to the desk she threw open the lid dramatically Mary-Lou drew in her breath and got away as far as she could looking at the inside of her desk with scared eyes |
| 27 | Anna was in the kitchen preparing vegetables , and from where she stood at the sink she could look across the water to Falmouth , a few hundred yards away : the Greenbank Hotel , the Royal Yacht Club , the new flats on the Packet Quays , then the backs of High Street and the pier . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're happy , ’ she said softly , tilting back her head so that she could look into his face . |
| 29 | She had come to look forward to the intervals between tenants , for at such times she would sit at the bedroom window that overlooked the street , which sloped swiftly to the main thoroughfare ; and guided by the landmarks of St Dominic 's church and , beyond that , St Ann 's , she could look over the chimney pots and catch a glimpse of the river gleaming between the busy traffic on it . |
| 30 | If she could look at meat hanging in a butcher 's , the fieldworker was told when she was accompanying policemen to a postmortem , she could look at dead bodies . |