Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] look [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever your situation , whether you are planning a change of direction or simply looking forward at the various opportunities open to you , the process of your decision-making is an important element of the choice itself . |
| 2 | Earlier her plan had been to go down to the village a little before the gala on the pretext of shopping and finding out the times of the events and perhaps look in at the antique shop ( for Mrs Price was on the Gala committee ) and let it be known she would join the young people , but now that her mother was ill that was out of the question , she pushed it on one side , the urgent thing was to get to the chemist 's and get the stuff up to her mother . |
| 3 | These include excessive pallor or flushing of skin ; rapid , darting eye movements ; perspiration ; tremor of hands ; rigid posture ; aggressive manner ; excessive and/or irrelevant talking , and not looking directly at the person being spoken to . |
| 4 | Green talks a good deal in an inflated style , and always looks sideways at the object he is speaking to ; when he looks directly forward , it is at some piece of furniture or other inanimate object , still talking all the while . |
| 5 | He picked up a mirror and looked at his own face , and then looked again at the face in the portrait . |
| 6 | Tubby took one swallow and then looked up at the Colonel . |
| 7 | Rohmer took a step towards them , still massaging his hand and then looked back at the girl . |
| 8 | Robyn listened , stared , digesting all that he had said and then looked back at the magnificent sixty-foot holly tree . |
| 9 | And for the first time , she got a response , for Isobel bobbed her head slightly and then looked down at the infant in the cot . |
| 10 | ‘ If you do n't keep in that fall , I 'm stopping your sweets , ’ he said , and then looked down at the mass of Arthur on the ground . |
| 11 | But Gran accepted it , patting her hand and then looking round at the clock as if to remind herself life had to go on . |
| 12 | He was speaking very much more quietly than when he first came in and occasionally looked reproachfully at the door as if the thing which had depressed him was just the other side of it . |