Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made Thorfinn look like an Arab . |
| 2 | He caught Creed looking at him , frowning . |
| 3 | Another witness reported Drew looking in a butcher 's shop window at 6.11 . |
| 4 | I caught Cam looking at me the other day . |
| 5 | But erm o one of the things that I asked Jane to look at was we want , it 's quite an expensive operation is this just in our salaries and the loss of fees from us from twenty four people |
| 6 | He noticed Willie looking at the black box on the stool . |
| 7 | While Nana denied that there were such things as duppies and forbade Martha to look under her old iron cot for them before she went to bed , Mada Joyce was expert on ghouls , ghosts , spirits and apparitions of all kinds , and had known a woman in another village who had actually seen the skinless old hag who sucked babies ' blood reach into the cradle of her new-born child and disappear with a shriek when she touched the Bible on the infant 's pillow . |
| 8 | A gravedigger noticed Clare looking at it , and called to him , ‘ Ah sir , that man did n't want to be buried here , but in his ancestors ’ tombs at Kingsbere . ’ |
| 9 | The French government asked SPRU to look at what role such methods play in the British system . |
| 10 | Scott asked Oates to look after the ponies , but he did not let Oates buy them . |
| 11 | Whether the view of science led Peirce to look for a prior epistemology , or whether the desire for , or availability of , a prior epistemology led him to think of inquiry as he did , are questions I shall not pursue here . |
| 12 | The nurse in charge of him , staff nurse Claire Winser , asked Allitt to look after him because she was busy . |
| 13 | " Did I do that ? " asked Sara looking at his face . |
| 14 | The two had arrived in Cyprus , with the cooperation of the DEA , to prepare a documentary on ‘ The Lebanese Connection ’ and as Hurley did not want to be bothered , he deputed Coleman to look after them . |
| 15 | Something in his voice made Osman look at him . |
| 16 | He saw William looking at him curiously across the crowd and then detach himself from the group he was with and move towards them . |
| 17 | There was a pause and I saw Jim looking at his fireplace . |
| 18 | It hurt Melanie to look at him . |
| 19 | Katherine saw Violette look at Sylvie with frank admiration . |
| 20 | When he straightened up he saw Laidlaw looking at him across the roof of the car , a faint smile on his lips . |
| 21 | Miss Evans saw Carrie looking at this . |
| 22 | Arthur saw Fred looking at his watch . |
| 23 | There was a cutting note in her voice , and she coloured when she saw Fred look at her . |
| 24 | I looked up and saw Emily looking at her mum in consternation . |
| 25 | ‘ Half A Person ’ saw Morrissey looking through the eyes of a 16-year-old runaway , complete with all the obsessive uncertainty of fandom . |
| 26 | Betty , made preternaturally alert by love , saw Beuno looking at Lydia and smiling , but misread his expression . |
| 27 | Woodruffe saw Finlayson looking at him . |
| 28 | Julia opened her eyes again and saw Comfort looking around her as though she expected to see men in white coats with a stretcher appearing through the walls . |
| 29 | When , when he was in I saw he I saw Mark look at that corner . |
| 30 | Because when , after seven or eight long seconds of genuine respect , he saw Howard looking at him out of the corner of his eye , he hastily hid the bottle of sherry behind his back and bowed his head . |