Example sentences of "[noun sg] looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even switched on the blue urinal lamp to see how its light looked against the clean walls . |
| 2 | First , there was subservience in that Bacon looked toward the pope for patronage . |
| 3 | The lawyer looked at the will , then at Poole , and finally at the dead man on the floor . |
| 4 | Dot looked at the doll and thought of its lost companion with a face of dripping wax . |
| 5 | Dot looked at the other children 's beds . |
| 6 | The superintendent looked at the reporter coldly . |
| 7 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 8 | The programme looked at the effect on the environment of three manmade lakes in Africa . |
| 9 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 10 | Secondly , research looked at the relationship between these councillors and the local government officers employed to implement their decisions . |
| 11 | The liftmaster looked at the others questioningly . |
| 12 | LATE SHOW RANGERS suffered a shock defeat at this venue early last season and a repeat looked on the cards as the Ibrox side struggled to find any rhythm after their extra-time exertions against Aberdeen in midweek . |
| 13 | We now know from Russian eyes , particularly from Khrushchev 's much suspected but surely authentic memoirs , how precarious and nerve-ridden the future looked to the Communist high command when Stalin succumbed to his stroke on 5 March , 1953 . |
| 14 | The McGuire et al 's study looked at the medication regimen of a group of patients on admission and on discharge . |
| 15 | Another study looked at the consequences of family conflict and a ‘ new wave of teenage girls breaking away ’ ( Willans , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One community study looked at the incidence of respiratory and diarrhoeal disease but reported no mortality . |
| 18 | The Harman study looked at the ninety-six cases which had been decided by the Registered Homes Tribunal between 1985 and 1989 . |
| 19 | This retrospective casenote study looked at the early course of schizophrenia in Asians , Afro-Caribbeans , and Whites presenting for admission with a first psychotic episode , to All Saints Hospital , Birmingham ( n= 137 ) over a 24 month period . |
| 20 | This study looked at the responses of more and less arithmetically-able pupils . |
| 21 | Boy looked through the glass of the living room window , or at the glass of the television screen , with the same fierce attention that he had stared through the shop windows . |
| 22 | Only the boy looked at the two men sledging a length of iron on the outside anvil . |
| 23 | Boy looked at the pictures of the moustached and uniformed characters with some relish ; but he could n't finish the text , and so missed the single paragraph that Mother had circled in black ink . |
| 24 | The boy looked at the ceiling . |
| 25 | The boy looked at the Trunchbull . |
| 26 | The first two were closed already , but Boy looked in the windows anyway ; when he was out journeying the whole point was to stop and look at everything . |
| 27 | There was a jumble of children 's voices , then the smaller child looked round the door . |
| 28 | The child looked like the orphan of the storm , and Janine looked terrible . |
| 29 | The hijacker looked at the photo , and then at Carl . |
| 30 | The King looked at the Queen , and the Queen looked at the executioner . |