Example sentences of "[modal v] look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , I suppose , we should look around for the thickest available development of a particular unit if we are to find anything approaching continuous sedimentation . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman should look back at the Labour party 's record in government before he starts to criticise ours . |
| 3 | There are some identifiable developed deities ; there are some incongruously primitive daemons too , which may look back towards an earlier period of religious feeling ; there are also some images of divinities which seem to be relatively poorly assimilated foreign imports . |
| 4 | Even then the older amongst them could look back to the early 1790s when debate about , and the practice of , abstention from slave-grown colonial sugar was claimed by Clarkson to have drawn in about 300,000 families . |
| 5 | Several times in the next few months I went up to the top floor again , where I could look out of the high windows in the roof to see the surrounding countryside and be alone with my thoughts . |
| 6 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 7 | He is said to sink onto his knee on the track and wait for the train to end his life ; the train crews used to look out for the shadowy figure and shudder . |
| 8 | Patrick Kelly , whom Dan would look on as an ill-educated lout , had actually spent time on her enjoyment . |
| 9 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 10 | From time to time he would look back with a certain pride at them . |
| 11 | We shall look back upon the 19th and early 20th century as the golden age of the written word and printed page . |
| 12 | We can look back to a similar situation hundreds of years ago — the taming of knights in the Middle Ages . |
| 13 | I like certain things ragged right for example , or fairly simple pages , but erm you can look back at the sixteenth century and find extremely simple pages , you know it 's not a modern idea and the thing is that most of the eddies and currents of popular graphic design are little stylistic exclusions that never go anywhere . |
| 14 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 15 | Stand in the bar and you can look out at the full expanse of San Antonio running around the bay and watch the ferries plying to and from the very centre of town to the landing stage only 50 metres away . |
| 16 | From the top floors you can be inspired by the panoramic views across the City and from all the floors you , can look out onto a vast covered court . |
| 17 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 18 | This is the ice-cream tent and this is the Ladies and changing rooms for some of the performers and instead of looking at the back of the bar during the interval , the audience can look out over the rolling Oxfordshire countryside . |