Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the more reason for Lorraine to look for a bigger home . |
| 2 | The timber industry , which offers jobs and promises , is popular now , but will it be so fondly regarded in 2005 when all of Sarawak looks like this ? |
| 3 | She had combed the shops of Windsor looking for work , and at last had found some . |
| 4 | Our Lady of Lourdes looked at the doorway opposite her in a gesture of supplication . |
| 5 | But with Karen such frankness was out of the question , and without her cooperation , getting rid of Dennis looked like just another of the many pipe-dreams I had indulged in over the years . |
| 6 | the phone calls , er , well the seventeenth of February looks to be the last itemized one |
| 7 | Mr Vafa has again asked the Law Society of Scotland to look into his grievance . |
| 8 | Yes , we set up a unit affiliated to the University of Salzburg to look into the question of stress in music-making ; and also the influence of music on the mind and the body , of healthy people and sick people . |
| 9 | Also on offer are Frederick McCubbin 's ‘ Feeding time ’ ( signed and dated 1893 , oil on canvas , 78x127 cm ) , which is estimated at Aus$350–450,000 ( £145–190,000 ; $265–340,000 ) , and the watercolour ‘ A view of Sydney looking from the north shore towards the city ’ by Conrad Martens ( signed , 46x66 cm ) , which is expected to realize Aus$170–200,000 ( £70–85,000 ; $130–150,000 ) . |
| 10 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 11 | What would the baptism of Jesus look like to a Balinese ? |
| 12 | At its centre , the plain-suited figure of Sweeney looks like a city clerk , surely linked to the Eliot who jokily signed himself F. [ rancis ? |
| 13 | That 's a thing I find that we 're losing very much is all these exclamations and of course a lot of exclamations were calling on a divine hand of God to look after you . |
| 14 | Friends clamoured to escape the trauma of walking endlessly up and down Glasgow 's Byres Road with a bottle of Hirondelle looking for a party to gatecrash , and so these Hogmanay house parties swelled in numbers yearly until the queue for the bathroom in the morning rivalled McDonald 's in Red Square . |
| 15 | Soon we reached the shrine , a car-park-like space beside the road in which stood a large glass tank containing a painted figure of Mary looking with pity on Jesus crucified . |
| 16 | THERE is a room in the House of Lords looked after by a clerical officer named Mr Pink . |
| 17 | The result of such stringency is a vetting of would-be candidates that makes the post of Pope look like slumming . |
| 18 | FROM THE window of the ancient DC3 liner the highlands of Gondar look like an alien world . |
| 19 | Get Maastricht 'd — The Essential History Of Europe looks at youth rebellion in present day Denmark . |
| 20 | Riding through the battered gates , unarmed , with nothing but the richness of his furs to identify him , James of Lusignan looked like a King , with the youth gone from his face along with the high-spirited waywardness . |
| 21 | Once again the train loops inland through moors that make those of Lewis look like playparks . |
| 22 | At the door of his tent , Osbern of Eu looked at the King . |
| 23 | The city of Balboa looks for all the world like a suburban Texas town — it has green lawns of tough-leaved grass , cyclone fences , large split-level houses , young housewives in sunglasses and hair-curlers driving Camaros on their way to the Safeway , American flags — and American troops . |
| 24 | This issue of NI looks at the car 's impact on our lives , our health and our environment . |
| 25 | Turkey in the summer months is hot , however , and any more than four people on our boats would have made the Black Hole of Calcutta look like Earls Court . |
| 26 | LOZ was revelling more than most , and after the club closed he dragged sexy woolly hat-wearing NME hack SIMON WILLIAMS around the streets of Islington looking for a pot-bellied old man clutching a bottle of champagne as it was ‘ the only way we 'll get a drink at this time in the morning ’ . |
| 27 | Perhaps it is too radical and imaginative a suggestion , but has anyone in the local government structure of Suffolk looked beyond their plans to build houses on Ipswich Airport and considered what a fine civil airport for the county either of the two unwanted RAF airfields might make ? |
| 28 | For a while the notion gripped him , and he prowled the many floors of Hamleys looking for toys . |
| 29 | The Prince of Wales looked at the bowl sharply . |
| 30 | Going about their Royal business in Seoul , the Prince and Princess of Wales looked like Mr and Mrs Glum . |