Example sentences of "look [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicky Henderson 's gelding bolted up by seven lengths from Miami Splash last Sunday and looks worth backing to follow up at 7–2 with Corals and Ladbrokes . |
| 2 | By the time the pub had filled enough so that the punters were giving me dirty looks for taking up so much room , I felt I had discovered enough to put two and two together and make five if not six . |
| 3 | And a British F C C would fit much more naturally into the Department of Trade 's portfolio , than into that of the department of national heritage , which currently looks after broadcasting . |
| 4 | Data is stored in the central system , where specialist software looks after billing . |
| 5 | We were still hostages , but being better looked after took the edge off the horrors of captivity . |
| 6 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 7 | John Smith , once everyone 's favourite , looks like assuming the same well worn cloak . |
| 8 | Yet his return to the club looks like proving the most significant in Forest 's recovery . |
| 9 | Indeed , despite the Sixties ' experiments with alternative life-styles , the despised suburban style looks like seeing the century through , for all its drawbacks of loneliness , boredom and exasperation , which made the man in the New Yorker cartoon say plaintively at the cocktail party : ‘ I want to talk about something else besides kids and illness ! ’ |
| 10 | Pick , squeeze seeds and pulp into a container and leave , adding water if it looks like drying out . |
| 11 | Looks like , looks like sawing off and redoing |
| 12 | Cos otherwise it looks like writing to random M Ps . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 14 | James Jonah 's visit on behalf of the secretary-general looks like producing some suggestions , but we shall continue to fund British non-governmental organisations that are providing relief in Somalia in the form of both food and medicines . |
| 15 | The LDP 's rebellious faction no longer looks like splitting off : on June 2nd one of its members said secession would achieve nothing , and that the best way to bring about reform was to work behind the scenes . |
| 16 | And it looks like maintaining its high standing for years to come . |
| 17 | You 'd be amazed what he looks like sucking a dog 's toe . |
| 18 | Already the Americans are working on improved versions of the original cruise missiles , and this continuous East-West jockeying for supremacy looks like developing into a full-blooded arms race . |
| 19 | With winter approaching and the slump growing the situation looks like getting worse . |
| 20 | We mentioned a small acquisition in Japan last year , medi on the medical side of Longman , P P S K K it cost us about four million pounds and we were reckoning on a profit of about half a million a year pleased to say that its er , its profit looks like getting to a million pounds by the year end . |
| 21 | Farming 's image looks like getting another damaging self-inflicted dent as a result of what the public perceive as wholesale tax dodging . |
| 22 | While research looks like taking more of a backseat in the new government , the extent to which Fabius will change research policy will become apparent only when he has begun to change the people in key staff positions . |
| 23 | ‘ Since the INCUBUS investigation looks like taking some time to get off the ground I can at least devote my attention to this new one . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He looks like bringing more success to Bangor than I ever achieved . |
| 25 | And that looks like bringing rain along for the afternoon . |
| 26 | Now we have Quattro Pro for DOS version 4 to contend with , released at virtually the same time as a Windows version that looks like causing quite a stir as well . |
| 27 | And that to me looks like hatred , that looks like trying to destroy femininity , something that is beautiful . |
| 28 | Still it looks like make us a fresh one . |
| 29 | What looks like thinning in a major unit may turn out to be something much more complicated in the smaller constituent units . |
| 30 | The user interface looks like setting the standard for future electronic books of this kind . |