Example sentences of "[conj] i look [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
2 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
3 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
4 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
5 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
6 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
7 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
8 | There 's lots of new plays being written that I look at and say ‘ Oh yes — there 's lots of opportunities there ’ . |
9 | But now that I look at her , I 've changed my mind . ’ |
10 | But Mala did insist , with some steeliness , that I look at some of the data . |
11 | ‘ But of course , now that I look at you , you have his colouring . |
12 | Wirral LEA decided to recommend me to ICI with the request that I look at management information systems within the site . |
13 | Not that , not that I look at that sort of thing on a regular basis so |
14 | So it is to them , the creators of American literature , that I look for clarification about the invention and effect of Africanism in the United States . |
15 | Erm , she covers the Durham , Gateshead and Bishop Auckland area , the reason being is that I look after our certain areas , and Jane looks after certain areas , and we both make appointments for Jack . |
16 | Because those are the areas that I look after for the business . |
17 | Probably that I 'm a genius and that I look like a donkey — or something like that |
18 | I know people have written saying that I look like a nun , or could have been a nun , but that 's the last thing I would want to be . |
19 | I hardly imagine that I look like an habitual criminal , anyway . ’ |
20 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
21 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
22 | In burning his New Testament , he wrote , they did ‘ none other than I looked for : no more shall they do if they burn me also , if it be God 's will it shall be so ’ . |
23 | Surprisingly I 'm very interested in that ; I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines . |
24 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
25 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
26 | My eyes go funny after a bit , so I look at summat else . |
27 | I 'm in bed reading , so I look at the little security system we have , look at the screen — I do n't know this chap , he 's obviously drunk , and obviously ex-public school . |
28 | I tend not to read long interviews with top celebs , as much to avoid discovering that they are dickheads as anything else , so I look for the news , gossip and reviews . |
29 | Yeah but , she did n't say these are all wrong once I look at |
30 | I also wondered — I was only seven — if the fire had anything to do with Alf Norris and I looking into the boiler room the day before ! |