Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 2 | The tall sheriff looked round the assembled faces in the crowded office and cleared his throat . |
| 3 | The back rooms looked into the soil of the hill , but the front over the richly clad valley and shining estuary on each arm of which were clusters of houses that thinned to scattered dwellings dotted among trees on the promontories . |
| 4 | The German model looked to the elevation of mind being attained by the student in personal pursuit of knowledge . |
| 5 | Alice watched while the White Rabbit looked at the names on his piece of paper . |
| 6 | The elderly régisseur looked around the vast cellars in despair . |
| 7 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 8 | The thin man looked at the sky . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the cessation of major hostilities left the northern English border exposed to endemic raids and marauding : the northern magnates looked to the crown for help to repulse and extinguish these threats . |
| 10 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 11 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |