Example sentences of "looked [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Instead he looked through the cages towards Woil and with one fierce look stopped his babbling short .
2 She looked through the drawers of Bob 's desk , curious to explore even the most unconsidered corners of his life .
3 The place looked like the ski-slopes at Chamonix .
4 She squatted at the edge of the dug soil , experiencing pleasure in her own body 's supple movement and the warmth of the sun on her skin , and looked along the rows of plants .
5 When the revisionists looked into the pigeon-holes without preconceptions , surprising novelties stared back at them , some with five eyes , some with none .
6 Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder .
7 The Prince looked upon the towns as part of his patrimony and those townsmen not on monastic or boyar land as his tenants .
8 De Tocqueville 's notes reveal not only the conscious opposition to such a mode of religious power but also how deep the solidarity between clergy and people was , the degree to which the poor , half the catholic population at the time , looked to the clergy for material and spiritual leadership , guidance , and assistance , and how much they trusted them .
9 It could be done in less than a week by men working with vigour , and mostly they did , for their own new lands looked to the forts for protection and warning .
10 A routine straight sets quarter final victory looked on the cards for Edberg but his serve began to misfire badly while unseeded Morgan 's own delivery proved too much of a handful for the world No 3 .
11 They looked across the lines of houses and the blocks of flats towards a distant handkerchief of park with tall bare trees .
12 But these studies looked at the interactions between species only to explore the process by which evolution produced complex adaptive structures .
13 Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically .
14 For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted .
15 Another study looked at the consequences of family conflict and a ‘ new wave of teenage girls breaking away ’ ( Willans , 1976 ) .
16 Willis , walking in his deliberate way , looked at the boxes on Maurice , paused , even shook his head a little , but did nothing .
17 Henry looked at the pages of script he had written in praise of the man he had helped on the way to eternal bliss , and found this to be true .
18 In chapter two we looked at the differences between pleasure and happiness .
19 An independent consultant looked at the studies for WEN and reported flaws and a lack of objectivity in the use of raw data , statistics and language , although Procter and Gamble has refuted these allegations .
20 In the modern world , we looked at the findings of psychologists , with all their promises of self-knowledge — or at least , self-analysis .
21 Almost the first experiments I had made with the passive avoidance model after completing the work with Marie , and even before we had located IMHV and LPO as the sites of change , looked at the effects of training on protein synthesis in general , using the precursor techniques that have already been described in earlier chapters .
22 Others looked at the drinks in front of them .
23 It was warm inside the building as I looked at the uniforms from Algeria , Morocco and Tonkin .
24 He looked at the displays with pride .
25 But in moving to a second order analysis they looked at the relations between groups of signs in discursive systems .
26 He looked at the piles of things scattered around my room .
27 Left alone at the table , with the faint shadow of daylight peering through the filthy window in the sloping roof , and with a bare bulb in the wall behind him , Greg looked at the piles of material before him , and his heart sank .
28 The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend .
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