Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The answer is that they will become superfluous , to be replaced by a new prototype that looks remarkably like a rugby league player . |
2 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
3 | He then looks grimly into the coffee cup . |
4 | It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users . |
5 | For this reason , it should not be looked on as an end user language . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
8 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
9 | Physically , it looks much like a video cassette recorder with a matt black livery chosen , no doubt , to suggest its connection with the world of hi-fi audio , televisions and video . |
10 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
11 | And remember that the benefits wo n't usually change with inflation — so a figure that looks more like a telephone number now than a pension may be much smaller , in real terms , when you retire . |
12 | Sebastiane , the six-foot-two model who looks more like a champion hurdler than a clothes-horse , strides into the room in flat shoes . |
13 | Looks more like a cotton wool factory than a cherry orchard . |
14 | ‘ Looks more like a home prescription to me , ’ the man said gloomily when he returned with a phial of pills . |
15 | A far cry from her ‘ strong woman with positive aggression ’ image , the photo looks more like a family snapshot . |
16 | The tax schedule in the UK looks more like the schedule OBDEF . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 ’ . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
27 | Dave also played the old fashioned curved soprano sax , which looks almost like a toy instrument but it sounded clear and forceful in his hands . |
28 | Doherty now looks forward to a quarter-final clash with Steve Davis . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | Square white buildings , three storeys high , sat at regular intervals on the slope , all looking down towards the parade ground . |