Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	The scarred world looks through their gaps .
2	I give her the letters and ask her which one 's for me , and she looks through them quick .
3	Sonja sighs and looks through them again .
4	The gunner looks through his optical sight , lines it up with an enemy tank and squeezes a trigger to fire a laser that measures the range .
5	When Blanche 's trunk has arrived Stanley looks through it to try to prove to Stella that Blanche has sold Belle Reve and bought herself pearls and diamonds and a huge selection of clothes .
6	It 's been a long time coming but Syndicate , the latest from Populous and Powermonger creators Bullfrog , looks worth it .
7	if it 's big and it looks worth it , but for a pair of gloves to pay a pound postage , er , er , you know
8	When Topaz had been able to tear her gaze away from Andrew she had looked about her .
9	Therese appeared , stepped carefully down from the train , smiled at the man who had helped her , then looked about her .
10	Looks about it .
11	‘ The cat never looks for me .
12	Hubert shall see where to-morrow will find me , and I 'll be there before he looks for me .
13	I have always said that there are thousands of qualified accountants sitting out there in small companies where they are finance directors , credit controllers , company secretaries , advisers to the board , the people to whom the board looks for everything .
14	She says she needs to gather up , in her post-modern skirt , all the creative , affirmative , intellectual parts of her childhood ; she needs to know how her folk survived , and when she looks for them in England , on TV , at the theatre , in art galleries , in advertising , they 're invisible .
15	It also looks for what Bensted called ‘ the unknown x-factor ’ which makes the placement work .
16	Who wants to body bash ? ’ she shouts with her body language , as she looks for her type of guy in the park — a hunky Dobermann or a Rottweiler usually twice her size !
17	Abberley looks for something by his bed . )
18	Striker Bull looks for his 200th goal .
19	She wrote back to him careful little letters to which no one could object , fearing to display too much emotion in case it called attention to the boy 's over-regard for her but she managed all the same to make her affection felt , telling him : — Pilade looks for you everywhere and will not believe I have not hidden you in a box .
20	One finds reassurance in foreign examples if one looks for it : but ought we not to be looking more for stimulus ?
21	The first order of meaning is available to participants but the second order of signification is a ‘ hidden ’ level of meaning in that it is not readily available to participants ( who might believe striptease to be erotic ) and needs to be generated by an analyst who knows that it is there and so looks for it .
22	Encore Computer Corp , Fort Lauderdale , Florida has teamed with New Straits Times Technologies Pvt Ltd of Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia to establish Asia Pacific Encore Pvt Ltd , and looks for it to generate $55m of business over the next five years .
23	Inspector Finch looks for it in various places .
24	And he looks for it when he comes round you see .
25	He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front .
26	No one would ever have looked for him there .
27	A man had hidden in a window seat ; his enemies had not looked for him there because on top of the seat , someone had laid a sleeping child .
28	Not surprisingly , many women have begun to reject the expectations of men and have looked for their own ‘ role models ’ among themselves .
29	Rokovssky , of course , knowing nothing about the use of latchcords in Walworth , had n't even looked for one .
30	Dan became apologetic , taking the guide 's side , saying how much they had looked for her , instead of being protective and angry as he should have been .

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