Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The rivers of Europe and America contain animals that look like the lancelet , though they are somewhat larger , up to 20 centimetres long . |
2 | She was wearing something lime-green and minuscule , with silver sandals adorning bare legs that looked like the stems of a slender plant . |
3 | Not even a control tower , just a grass runway , with a wind-sock at one end , three old pre-war hangars and several huts that looked like a Luftwaffe addition . |
4 | Sanchez uncrossed his legs and looked towards the pit . |
5 | ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’ |
6 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
7 | Wishart narrowed his eyes and looked into the candlelight . |
8 | Martin screwed up his eyes and looked towards the hills , saying , ‘ How can you tell from here ? ’ |
9 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
10 | Even his fond parents do n't call him that when he rampages through the flat creating mayhem , and Joyce was recently heard to declare that she 'd rather do Rob 's tax returns than look after the baby . |
11 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
12 | With the development of machinery , the mass produced object intended to disguise its origins and look like the product of hand labour has become well established . |
13 | It is recognized in thirty-five countries and looks like a piece of jewellery but is useful in cases of emergency . |
14 | They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence . |
15 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |
16 | After that race his family remembers him coming home with badly bruised and torn feet and looking like a skeleton . |
17 | After mopping up the mess-tin with a large piece of French bread that had accompanied the stew , I got to my feet and looked around the barn . |
18 | ‘ Give me time to go to the ruins and look for a sign of Harry . ’ |
19 | Apted 's definitions do not seem to take into account the student who goes directly to the shelves and looks for a book for an essay topic . |
20 | Glance at the sentences and memorize the next few phrases and look at the audience while you are speaking . |
21 | All we need to do is to push microelectrodes into the regions to which the prestriate cortex projects and look for the cells that only respond to particular objects . |
22 | She moved away a little , patting her petticoats and looking at the dog . |
23 | She watched , listened , learned and assessed , speaking only when spoken to in general — whilst all the while making her plans and looking to the future … |
24 | She finished her notes and looked at the list of suspects . |
25 | They used to be part and parcel of the water authorities and looked after the rivers when we were one big body , as a water authority . |
26 | The information which is available highlights the importance of disaggregating household-based data on incomes and expenditure patterns and looking at the consequences for the individuals within those households . |
27 | In this experiment , only Group M is learning on Day 2 , whilst Group N is repeating similar but already learned behaviour to that of Group M. Immediately after the trial on Day 2 we took the birds and looked for the expression of one of the immediate early genes , c-jun . |
28 | The new cars were a sensation when they first appeared , passengers let old cars pass in order to ride on them , and upon entering removed their hats and looked for a door mat ! |
29 | There have been various attempts to classify different corporate cultures and to look at the consequences of those types for the use of power ( see Deal and Kennedy ; Handy ) . |
30 | It 's something very close to what I 'm saying erm and erm I 'm saying perhaps one thing in addition , which is that just as when we look into the future , which , as a historian , I 'm asked to do more often , I think , these days than looking at the past , but when we look into the future , we have different versions of what that future will be . |