Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 2 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 3 | Sometimes , before their numbers were made up , one or two of them would come to the edge of Steep Ridgery and look gloomily out over the sea of greenery as though wondering whether they dared set out without waiting longer . |
| 4 | I tossed the paper on the desk and looked moodily out of the window . |
| 5 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 6 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 7 | And at this point he sat up in bed , said ‘ White Rabbits ! ’ aloud , to bring luck throughout the coming month , and looked eagerly out of the window into the dewy sunshine which was beginning to shimmer on Thrush Green . |
| 8 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 9 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |