Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 2 | ‘ The town where I was born looked much like the outskirts of this city . |
| 3 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 4 | In such a case , as Lord Haldane said in North Western Salt Co Ltd v Electrolytic Alkali Co Ltd [ 1914 ] AC 461 , the law " still looks carefully to the interests of the public , but it regards the parties as the best judges of what is reasonable as between themselves " . |
| 5 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 6 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 7 | It 's official designation is an eyecatcher ; the idea was you looked out of the windows of the house and that your eye was drawn to the temple at the end of the lakes . |
| 8 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 9 | Anyone who inspects the cobbles closely will find , if he makes a successful Int test ( Physician or Physician 's Student +10 ) that the greasiness is due to many small gobbets of what looks very like the remains of human fat . |
| 10 | But the interior is remarkable : a single aisle with a high barrel vault of painted wooden panelling looking rather like the timbers of an inverted ship 's hull . |
| 11 | I felt that I was looking right into the worms of pain in his skull , but they turned into slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 12 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 13 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 14 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 15 | He stood by the large window , looking down on the lights of Leeds . |
| 16 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 17 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 18 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 19 | Third parties can not appeal against the grant of a planning permission , but they too are looking more to the courts for redress , usually by way of a declaration or judicial review . |
| 20 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 21 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 22 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 23 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 24 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 25 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 26 | Alleycat and Digger were looking up at the stars in the sky . |
| 27 | She was coming along the opposite pavement on foot and was looking up at the buildings as if she were not sure of being in the right street . |
| 28 | Like lying on one 's back as we did in Spain when we slept out looking up between the fig-branches into the star-corridors , the great seas and oceans of stars . |
| 29 | His head had an odd tilt or cock to it , set on the shoulders as if he were looking up from the bars of a drop-handled bike . |
| 30 | ‘ The scientists said , ‘ Oh , beware of the chiggers ’ , and the first day we went out , in our shorts and flip-flops , looking up in the trees for these chiggers — we thought they might be big furry things . |