Example sentences of "[conj] look [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's no good looking round , you do n't make excuses or look for other people to help you . |
| 2 | Laughton and his board have put faith in the players and they must repay that faith or look for another club . |
| 3 | At times the class will be sent away to get information or look for more evidence . |
| 4 | She knew that look from old , and it was n't one that she particularly liked . |
| 5 | The most impressive of the rhinos is the great Indian rhinoceros , with its tough skin thrown into heavy folds that look like curved , welded sections of sheet-metal . |
| 6 | For both left and right visual fields it takes longer to reject as " illegal " , in a lexical decision task , pseudo-homophones ( letter strings that do not constitute words but sound like real words , e.g. " bloo " , " rayne " ) than letter strings that look like real words but do not sound like real words . |
| 7 | Fish do not find worms that look like that and hooks lose so much of their penetrating power . |
| 8 | The drawing shows two interchanging information fields that look like mating amoebas . |
| 9 | For example , Richter makes paintings of photographs , makes prints of photographs of his paintings , and paints abstract pictures that look like commercial colour charts . |
| 10 | TIP : Fish pox is a viral nuisance that covers your Koi ( usually the most expensive ones , it seems ) with unsightly whitish-pink blobs that look like melted candle wax . |
| 11 | Most sailors soon tire of sailing in the same place all the time and look for new places to sail which will give them variety and a challenge . |
| 12 | Put these in a shallow dish and look for small animals on the stems and on the underside of leaves . |
| 13 | Down into the Central Line , pick up abandoned newspapers and look for that advertisement . |
| 14 | Then the next step was very clear — that we should make the next molecule , which was rather more complicated , and look for that . |
| 15 | In order for us to maximise our returns to our shareholders we must continue to examine every facet of our business , question our way of working and look for greater efficiency . |
| 16 | After Looking Stead begin climbing the shoulder of Pillar , and look for two cairns placed either side of the path . |
| 17 | You then make little card templates of each machine in the same scale as your floor plan , then go and look for any other large objects that you might have to install — your bench area , your timber storage area and a storage area for board material . |
| 18 | If , for whatever justifiable reason , you consider buying a container-grown rose , or any other plant for that matter , turn it on its side , and look for fresh root action around the drainage holes . |
| 19 | To analyze the statistics and look for meaningful trends obviously takes staff time . |
| 20 | Occasionally , when manpower allows , men from the sections are assigned to beat duty and can walk anywhere within the Easton district in order to show a presence and look for minor crime . |
| 21 | I just skip and run — and look for green shoots . |
| 22 | Yet , if we take this together with the fact that many other forms characteristic of modern English spread in these centuries from the East Midlands and the North , we can advance the hypothesis that this change was in progress in the East Midlands around 1300 , and look for further evidence to support or refute this . |
| 23 | As for the muggers who injure first and rob later , there is only one thing you can do : keep your eyes open , be aware of people around you , know what they are doing and look for likely ambush spots . |
| 24 | If you want to use unleaded petrol now , check with your dealer , and look for more information in the Tesco guide — " Unleaded Petrol at Tesco " . |
| 25 | Go and look for some of your friends , the Stewpot fan club , and ask them to play for your precious team . |
| 26 | So I had to go to Moscow and look for some plywood . |
| 27 | You listen to your friends and look for tell-tale signs behind their smiles . |
| 28 | Now , arriving at his own manor of Kouklia , he recognised as if he had been bred to it the sound and smell and look of each component ; each piece of equipment . |
| 29 | There had been a stray mongrel whom they had named Herbert , with a large uncoordinated body and look of lugubrious disapproval who had attached himself to them for a few weeks and whose voracious appetite for dog-meat and biscuits had had a ruinous effect on the housekeeping . |
| 30 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |