Example sentences of "they looked [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they were unduly optimistic when they looked to Washington for assistance with their new defence programme . |
| 2 | It spanned the road ahead , the brickwork streaked with dark tears and three black holes in the middle , one for the traffic and two smaller ones on each side for pedestrians , and they looked to Preston like mouths , or nostrils , breathing fog . |
| 3 | Big , raw-boned farm hands , they looked to Grant as though they spent their working time wrestling bulls — and winning ! . |
| 4 | They looked to ways of organizing cheap , safe public transport , of generating socially useful employment and , particularly after the 1981 riots , of improving the quality of urban life . |
| 5 | Disenchanted with the way society had changed and their own place in it , again like many of their kind , they looked to Hitler as a role model , admired what he was doing for Germany . |
| 6 | Secondly , they looked to anthropology to supply them with examples of contrastive , even opposite , systems of institutions to those of nineteenth-century capitalism . |
| 7 | They looked on edge . |
| 8 | And they looked on course when goals from Ryan Giggs and Ian Rush put them in front after the RCS had taken a 16th minute lead through Pavel Kuka . |
| 9 | As for Southampton , they looked on Saturdays performance a poor side with little hope of staying up *if* they continue to play the way they did against Leeds . |
| 10 | They loathed the German guns and they looked with longing and detestation at Woolley , but in each of them fear had given way to a curiously objective fatalism . |
| 11 | They themselves might ‘ motor ’ down to their country retreat at the weekends but they looked with signal disfavour on the idea that the vast mass of the populace might enjoy a similar mobility and have access to pleasures which for the moment were peculiarly their own . |
| 12 | After pre-whitening the series of spot and futures prices , they looked for Granger causality ( see Chapter 8 ) between these series . |
| 13 | Its fighters would be amnestied , would have special access to education , health care , land and credit , and would receive a monthly payment for six months while they looked for employment and adapted to civilian life . |
| 14 | They wanted examples and cases to show that the institutions of capitalism are historically specific and therefore changeable ; in order to demonstrate this they looked for examples of institutions which were as different from those of capitalism as possible . |
| 15 | " It 's true , " he told Harry and Ann when they looked for confirmation . |
| 16 | They looked at Anna , and then talked quietly about her . |
| 17 | They looked at Goldman , then at Elliott getting out of the car . |
| 18 | The men and women who came were dressed differently from those who jostled one another in the rue Sanghines , but they looked at money the same way . |
| 19 | They looked at Miss Poraway 's books . |
| 20 | At eight Maggie had not known that her grandmother was famous , but she had seen that people had something in their manner when they looked at Rachel ; later she learned that something was respect . |
| 21 | They kissed Edouard on both cheeks , they patted him on the back , they looked at Isobel hard and long , and they seemed to approve of what they saw . |
| 22 | Johnson and Boswell sauntered through the castle , as they could today , where many of the artefacts are preserved in a museum ; they looked at Rorie More 's drinking-horn — Boswell 's description is clearer than Johnson 's — ‘ a rather large cow 's horn , with the mouth of it ornamented with silver curiously carved ’ . |
| 23 | They looked at Jackie . |
| 24 | Leading on from this , the class discussed how they looked at pictures , and how the picture was composed . |
| 25 | He thought about the dignified posture of Elinor and Elinor 's mother , about how good they looked in black , about how they retained their composure even as the oblong box containing Derek slid off through a gap in the crematorium wall . |
| 26 | Apart from the investment in systems , 1984 saw the start of a steady refurbishment programme to update and revive the 116 chain stores , which were so run down , they looked in Pitcher 's words like ‘ a missing tooth on the high street . ’ |
| 27 | But the consequences of an unresolved oedipus complex look quite different today from the way they looked in Freud 's time . |
| 28 | For example , they looked in detail at each major recession and argued from their observations that the money supply declined for reasons other than the recession itself and that the fall in money national income generally followed the fall in the money supply . |
| 29 | When the lights of Canewdon village began to spring up on their hill they looked like lights through frosted glass . |
| 30 | Mainly because they looked like chicken 's feet . |