Example sentences of "[noun prp] look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 2 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 3 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 4 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 5 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 6 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 7 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 8 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
| 9 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 10 | Rusty looked out with a baleful eye from the front page . |
| 11 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 12 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 13 | Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building . |
| 14 | Reluctantly , Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes . |
| 15 | Crowther looked back to the previous and deeply influential report , also by the Central Advisory Council , on Early Leaving ( 1954 ) . |
| 16 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 17 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 18 | Simon looked around at the bigger house with an alert eye . |
| 19 | Simon looked back along the deserted promenade . |
| 20 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 21 | At a time when plans for global communications seem to rest on the semantics of international standards , Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |
| 22 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 23 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 24 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 25 | Elaine looked up at the black , velvety sky studded with tiny , twinkling stars . |
| 26 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 27 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 28 | Martin looked up into the dark sky where now he could see a faint pattern of grey , scudding clouds , then whispered , ‘ I do n't think it 'll last long with this wind , and there 's more snow in the air . |
| 29 | As was usually the way when the magnificent horses were offered for sale , they sold within the hour , leaving Seb to look around at the other animals and sample the pleasures offered to the fair-goers . |
| 30 | Rose looked up from a Naseby-dominated desk as Mr Multhrop speedily opened the door and almost pushed the sergeant in . |