Example sentences of "looks [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bill looks through the windshield at the night sky again . |
| 2 | — This trend to professional academic specialization is confirmed by G. B. Harrison , writing in 1940 on the Review 's first fifteen years : " It will hardly be denied by anyone who looks through the files of the Review that the earlier numbers were more interesting than the later " , which he put down to the " increasing specialization in English , as in all forms of study " . |
| 3 | Then he cleans the bed of needles and berries , spreads an old blanket over it , stretches himself at length , his hands folded under his head , and looks through the branches at what he can see of the blue sky . |
| 4 | It looks through the buildings which make up English towns and cities at the processes of life which produced and used them , and so attempts to explain them in human terms . |
| 5 | Egypt Mill is a lovely , big horse by Deep Run and looks worth every penny of the 30,000gns he cost at the Ballsbridge Sales last year . |
| 6 | ‘ Let's take all the little bastard 's clothes off , and see how he looks as a nigger . ’ |
| 7 | She looks for no way to comfort herself except by degrading herself by having sex . |
| 8 | If we believe that it is right to push back the boundaries of middle age a few years , we can happily keep our young tastes and looks for a bit longer . |
| 9 | LEEDS UNITED manager Howard Wilkinson looks for a change of luck tonight at sold-out Elland Road . |
| 10 | After the Reformation it looks for a moment as if the Ecclesiastical Courts would allow even a divorce in the modern sense ; but the attempt fails , and the only way of getting a complete dissolution of marriage is by special Act of Parliament ( and so the law remained , for persons domiciled in Northern Ireland , up to 1939 ) . |
| 11 | If results do not occur , the marketing director , or , worse , the managing director , looks for a scapegoat , human nature being what it is . |
| 12 | Well yeah I guess I did he gets confidence and he walks up with this he 's getting cockier by the minute and he 's well proud and he 's got he sees this , his in this bar trying to chat up this woman , he says I need a , I need a did n't he say I need a smoke or something , so he looks for a woman |
| 13 | JA II impresses first with how tiny it looks for a car with such a monstrous reputation , second for the sheer physical intensity of the power when the Ford V8 crashes into life . |
| 14 | DALIAN ATKINSON could be the next target as England manager Graham Taylor looks for a hit-man . |
| 15 | Cricket : Inquest looks for a victim : Derek Hodgson examines the problems facing today 's gathering of the Headingley hierarchy |
| 16 | Stéphane Dumas looks for a soul in things that have been thrown away to continue their life as rubbish . |
| 17 | When a toad looks for a pond in which to spawn , chances are it 's going on memory . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Each child has a number and looks for a packet with it on , which contains a small present . |
| 20 | The British Press habitually looks for an opportunity eventually to knock down the heroes they have created and placed on pedestals , if only to do something new . |
| 21 | NOW AT&T LOOKS FOR AN INFORMATION SERVICES FIRM IN WHICH TO INVEST |
| 22 | The recruiter looks for the index card , and finds it is not there . |
| 23 | The test looks for the presence of these antibodies . |
| 24 | So complementary medicine looks for the healing of the whole individual : the different parts of the body as they interact with one another , the mind-body as an integral system , the harmony of the individual with his/her surroundings and the harmony of the Universe at large . |
| 25 | One listens for and looks for the signs of a presence — a call , a disorder in the green face of the forest signalling a monkey 's passage — and most times one must be satisfied with that . |
| 26 | Looks for the support of Graham and finds it . |
| 27 | A little light patter while she looks for the file . |
| 28 | She rises , moves the improvised drying rack of Riva 's clothing to one side , feeds more coal to the fire , settles back and looks for the words in the flames . |
| 29 | Such a gritty attitude is typical of the veteran Redruth prop , who looks after a flock of 530 sheep and a small herd of beef cattle on his holding close to Padstow on Cornwall 's windswept Atlantic coast . |
| 30 | The second cell looks after the rotorcure process , which laminates the plies of PVC film that comprise the tile material . |