Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] look [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Neil avoided looking at a bridling McAllister , particularly when Mrs Darrell went on to say , still in the same shriek , ‘ Hope she 's honest , Neil . |
| 2 | ‘ Until then waves had looked like a pleasant photogenic distraction on television , and not a serious challenge to anything else , ’ Salter recalled , ‘ but getting so close to 5 p/kWh would have rung a lot of alarm bells with people who would feel threatened . ’ |
| 3 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 4 | the situa , perhaps it 's worth outlining how Litchfield came to look at the new settlement option , because it has some relevance to York |
| 5 | Benny had looked at the cream-coloured blouses and soft pink angora sweaters . |
| 6 | SHE sat on the park bench waiting for Richard , her head turned to look towards the main gate . |
| 7 | Eventually , they entered London , and Noah began to look for a quiet , cheap pub where they could spend the night . |
| 8 | Dulé leaned to look at the dark husk that was the old woman 's body ; shadows bound the close air inside the room and he could see her only as a lighter shape . |
| 9 | A frisson wriggled down her spine but the room held no other occupant and though she turned round as soon as she decently could , Berndt Tjerssen contrived to look like a sweet , chubby old man . |
| 10 | In her day , Mrs Thatcher tried to look like a normal human being and went shopping . |
| 11 | Their Lordships refused to look at the internal workings of Parliament stating that if errors had occurred in the procedure for passing legislation then it was for Parliament alone to correct them . |
| 12 | The interior of the bus was lit only by a small torch made to look like an old lamp , the type you see in Westerns , and from what I could see I was glad there was no more light . |
| 13 | The March Hare poured a little hot tea on its nose , and the Hatter began to look for a clean plate . |
| 14 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 15 | Laura turned to look at the other woman in astonishment . |
| 16 | On the whole , Agnes enjoyed looking after the little house . |
| 17 | YOUNG brothers learning to play golf went looking for a lost ball — and found an abandoned baby . |
| 18 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 19 | Brown sat looking through an ancient telescope at the clockwork precision of the galaxy . |
| 20 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 21 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 22 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |