Example sentences of "[coord] look [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would therefore display a becoming restiveness , or look round for the usual dispatch-case , so that when he started slowly rising to his feet , which he did as if by some inner mechanism , I could , like an adjoining lift , follow him slightly behindhand . |
| 2 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 3 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 4 | With these small points I 've I 've made , Lancashire region supports the report and looks forward for a wider discussion at regional and branch level . |
| 5 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 6 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 7 | The meticulously clean rooms are of medium size , nicely furnished and decorated with telephone and T.V. The breakfast room is of a good size and looks out onto a small garden . |
| 8 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 9 | and looking forward to a new year . |
| 10 | Most of these seemingly alert young men , acting as sentries for their sleeping comrades , are soaked to the skin and looking forward to a little sleep themselves before the final push against the enemy . |
| 11 | But she is settling in much better now and looking forward to the best Christmas dinner money can buy . ’ |
| 12 | He had the good lecturer 's habit of referring back to the previous lecture , and looking forward to the next , so that the course flowed smoothly on . |
| 13 | Having negotiated the pitch with difficulty in the wet , I was at first relieved at having passed beneath the boulder and looking forward to an easy scramble to the top when I came across another difficult pitch . |
| 14 | SIX years ago , in the introduction to a collection of his plays , Howard Brenton was still trumpeting his adherence to Marxism and looking forward to an unstoppable ‘ British Revolution ’ . |
| 15 | The King is seen exchanging an earthly crown for a crown of thorns and looking up towards a heavenly crown |
| 16 | I believe that the whole country thinks that with the uncertainties in the world — in the middle east and elsewhere , as well as in the Soviet Union — and looking ahead to the next 10 years , it is essential that we maintain our minimum credible nuclear deterrent . |
| 17 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |
| 18 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 19 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 20 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 21 | The restaurant has a loggia alongside for summer dining , and there is an attractive swimming pool around which guests can spend a relaxed and leisurely day , soaking up the sunshine and looking out to the rolling countryside all around . |
| 22 | None came and still under the drug 's influence at dawn , he found himself looking out from the top of a forty-foot tree — he had no memory of climbing it — and looking down on a vast meadow , flecked with patterns of multi-coloured light and rocks which turned into horses , all of which filled him with ‘ tremendous emotions ’ . |
| 23 | When father and son were alone David stood warming his hands at the brazier , and looking down with a clouded face into the red glow . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face . |
| 25 | And heavens knows , once launched it 's all too hard to turn back and look again for the missed trace . |
| 26 | I was strong enough next morning to go and look out of the front window . |
| 27 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 28 | There 're are complicated members of the terror act and it 's not an entirely frivolous suggesting because if you have any doubts that the performance of this County Council in it 's for duty to maintain the rights of way network to a standard appropriate for the traffic , then go and look even at a small part of John 's film . |
| 29 | The crew have got a couple of machines which churn everything up to make white water and the chippie ran up some rocks which they anchor to the bottom of the river and look just like the real thing . |
| 30 | Now the idea is catching on in Britain , so Lydia Ascroft says have a bash at massage and look forward to a sexier , slinkier you for the long , hot summer ! |