Example sentences of "but look [adv] " in BNC.

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1 It is not related to the true eels but looks superficially like them and so has acquired their popular name .
2 Not only does the Menorcan CC hope to encourage the development of cricket in the Balearics , but looks forward to welcoming British touring sides to the island in the near future .
3 Towards the end of this time , the mother looks as though she has a bunch of pink grapes on her underside and clambering about the branches or running over uneven ground not only becomes awkward for her but looks distinctly uncomfortable for her young .
4 but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers
5 The Pennsylvania Dutch tole watering can might be repro but looks extremely convincing .
6 The scrutiny takes nothing for granted but looks directly at what actually happens at all levels of the area under study .
7 She is 32 , but looks about 18 , with the same clear , icon-like beauty that shone from that television film of a decade ago .
8 But looking up at Ilbrec she saw such a heartbroken sorrow that without a word she let him stoop and take Fand from her .
9 A man was watching him from no more than ten feet away , standing still but looking backwards , as if his attention had been drawn to Ross 's sudden appearance .
10 The prince was seated , not in his chair of state , but between two of his clerks at a trestle table , with a quantity of papers and parchments spread before them ; and his treasurer stood at his shoulder , ready to advise if requested , but looking on so impartially that it seemed to her he had already done his share .
11 And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself .
12 And we stood there , me with a great big frown on my face , quite mystified that William could n't see what I was getting at … and William smiling but looking equally puzzled that I appeared to be incapable of understanding what he meant .
13 They were sad to be leaving , but looking forward to being re-united with their families .
14 I ai n't really scared of the dark , not normally , but looking out there , it 's a bit scary .
15 But looking out of the window he saw the hills again .
16 She quickly changed her position , so that she was no longer facing him but looking out towards the lake .
17 The bacon is strongly scented , very porcine ; in the pan it is not going brown but looking more like a slice of pig than bacon should .
18 But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple .
19 Her eyes were lowered , not closed , but looking down at her hands .
20 By the beginning of the third week , Charlie could only just fit his swollen toes into the heavy leather boots the army had supplied him with , but looking down the rows of feet that adorned the barrack room floor each morning he could see that none of his comrades was any better off .
21 But looking back , we seem to have a selective memory for the best bits of the past .
22 But looking back , it all came from the way he spoke so affectionately about his family .
23 I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance .
24 But looking back I think of them as compensation for the rest of me life before , and what 's to come …
25 This indicates the kind of attitude of mind that says ‘ lawyers know best how to write reports ’ , but looking back , particularly over the public inquiry reports of the 1950s , the quality is pretty poor and remarkably uneven .
26 But looking back to the principles of Beveridge 's plan for welfare , one of the main conditions which the originators made , in order that a workable system might evolve , was that reasonably full employment be maintained .
27 But looking back on his past he can say simply : ‘ I have had a good time . ’
28 He had looked at her in a way that frightened and worried her , but looking back she became excited and stirred by his attention .
29 It did n't seem particularly odd at the time , I suppose , but looking back I was surprised he did n't say anything like , ‘ Have a nice trip . ’
30 But looking back on his tribute to the miners , it is a flawed masterpiece .
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