Example sentences of "looked [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked through some copy which her assistant had left on her desk and crossed out a typing error . |
| 2 | The relatively less developed southern members , e.g. Portugal , Spain and Greece , looked for some compensation if they were to face the rigours of a more competitive European marketplace . |
| 3 | I looked for some sign of a woman 's occupation , and found none . |
| 4 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 5 | The countryside looked like some vision of hell ; white , silent fields and black trees against a grey sky . |
| 6 | Kathleen Lavender held out a cardboard box between her hands , speechlessly , so that it looked like some kind of dumb offering and Dorothea at once remembered the solicitor 's stiff letter , her own shamed surprise and then her agitation . |
| 7 | Black eyeliner on my lower lids , and I looked like some kind of She-devil . |
| 8 | He looked like some kind of rare orchid , dressed in a Crocodile Dundee hat of soft green suede and miniature matching trousers under a jerkin of pink washed silk lined with purple . |
| 9 | It looked like some sort of military place , so I walked in . ’ |
| 10 | It looked like some sort of play he was writing , so far as Bob could see . |
| 11 | ‘ She told us that you had all been kept in what looked like some palace rooms , about how you were all positioned , never allowed to touch or speak , and that you were watched through little holes in the door . |
| 12 | She was so small , and Luke so long in the leg , he looked like some father riding a seaside donkey to amuse his children . |
| 13 | She inhaled the aroma of his thick black coffee and looked with some doubt at her murky cup of tea . |
| 14 | I went in and looked with some surprise at a pan of sausages balanced on the coals . |
| 15 | I first saw her when I was called to see one of Mrs Ainsworth 's dogs , and I looked in some surprise at the furry black creature sitting before the fire . |
| 16 | Abroad , therefore , as at home , the future of ‘ Thatcherism ’ looked in some doubt , and the vision of ‘ the strong state ’ , based on free enterprise and nuclear defence , that much feebler . |
| 17 | We looked in some detail at some aspects of protection which included certain kinds of technical and formal performance , the indirect handling of painful subjects and projection , the latter including some aspects of the teacher 's most flexible strategy , teacher-in-role . |
| 18 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 19 | Um , if you look at erm who 's bringing people up , again according to Daley and Wilson , I think this is where the information originated , in Canada where they 've looked at um looked at some statistics on this , if you 're being brought up by step-parents you 're seventy times more at risk than if you 're being brought up by your as it were biological parents . |
| 20 | He chose the blackjack from a selection on a velvet tray , and then he looked at some handcuffs — real ones , this time , but heavier than regulation and suggestive of overkill . |
| 21 | Now and then he got hold of a book , or looked at some prints , or chatted with a local worthy , but it was a hard life and they were in narrow circumstances . |
| 22 | We also looked at some perceptions which had attitudinal overtones . |
| 23 | I looked at some pictures of Rhonda Fleming . |
| 24 | Last month saw the start of a three-part series by Patricia Spallone on genetic engineering ( GE ) , which looked at some applications on plants , bacteria , viruses and animals and the need for feminists to put biotechnology , the industrialisation of life on the political agenda . |