Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 2 | He then looks grimly into the coffee cup . |
| 3 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 4 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 5 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
| 6 | Selkirk looks best in the Beefeater Gin Celebration Mile where the stiffest test is likely to come from French challenger Steinbeck , who loves the mud . |
| 7 | The tax schedule in the UK looks more like the schedule OBDEF . |
| 8 | ‘ Looks more like the communications centre of a nuclear sub . ’ |
| 9 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 10 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 11 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 12 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 13 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 14 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 15 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 16 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 17 | erm They had great services were held in Christchurch Cathedral , and the King would have looked out from the Deans House , and this is the view of Tom Quad , a modern view , of course , of how you can look out onto the Great Quad of Christchurch , but of course it was n't like that . |
| 18 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 19 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |
| 20 | Bill Beaumont looks ahead to the Pilkington Cup final |
| 21 | Why it got this name I 've no idea , as the so called ‘ bees ’ , looking rather like the cereal Sugar Puffs , were reputed to be an Australian fungus with yeast-like properties . |
| 22 | Square white buildings , three storeys high , sat at regular intervals on the slope , all looking down towards the parade ground . |
| 23 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 24 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |
| 25 | Just before dusk one of the villagers , walking through the church grounds , saw the abbe in the garden looking down at the carp pond . |
| 26 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 27 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 28 | It is built across the Via Sacra at its summit , looking down on the Forum Romanum . |
| 29 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 30 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |