Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 2 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 3 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 4 | And then he looks forward to the weekends and that . |
| 5 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 6 | And the woman seemed in no hurry to close it and shut out the dangerous night ; she simply stood , looking down at the children and smiling . |
| 7 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 8 | Managerial behaviour was also introverted , reacting to actors and problems stemming from within the organisation instead of looking outwards to the needs and wishes of its users . |
| 9 | Looking critically at the practices and processes of black , women artists , this course will concentrate on contemporary women of colour in the UK , their social relationships in the light of their gender and class . |
| 10 | Another man would have gone away , would have pretended we were not there , would have stood looking up at the wall-plaques and the windows until we had gone safely away . |
| 11 | Well , there 's a certain romance in floating in a warm swimming pool on a cold winter 's night , looking up at the stars and wondering whether to fling oneself down the rapids or go and sit in a Jacuzzi instead . |
| 12 | for it would have been possible , they argue , to move towards a system that examined knowledge and skills which crossed old subject boundaries ; a new way of looking both at the sciences and the arts could have been incorporated in the new syllabuses . |
| 13 | Looking now at the gains and losses bar graph for the year we see that the main explanation for their growth has been the addition of thirty-two members through transfer . |
| 14 | Gorey is easy to find , out on the east coast , looking out over the sands and round to the point where the castle I always thought was in St Helier actually is . |
| 15 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 16 | Through the open door he could see the computer personnel ; some with hands still over their ears , others looking around at the walls and ceiling . |
| 17 | Looking coldly at the figures and at the Plafond Limité de Classement ( PLC ) of 13,000 kilograms per hectare , it would seem that most of Champagne 's production in those two years should have been sent off to the distillery . |
| 18 | The place smelt of oil , paint , damp and slow failure , and Marriage himself sat with his back to it in the cold sunshine , looking across to the willows and alders of the far bank and the fields beyond . |
| 19 | He stood for a moment , framed in the great gateway , and Fenella saw how the early morning light touched his dark hair and brought out red glints in it and saw , as well , that his eyes were shining , as if he was already looking ahead to the dangers and the adventures . |
| 20 | It would also bring deep depression to many members of communities who are looking forward to the bypasses that the present Government have promised . |
| 21 | Then I can look right over the woods and see where they are ! ’ |
| 22 | If you 've set your heart on some specific feature — say , white carpet — and find it 's not feasible or practical or that it 's too expensive , then look sensibly at the alternatives and find a less impossible compromise . |
| 23 | Oak trees look down on the palms that bring a sub-tropical feel to the rest of the gardens . |
| 24 | ‘ Someone might look over from the gate-towers and catch the gleam of it . |
| 25 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 26 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 27 | Look carefully at the casuals and see their threads beginning to unravel . |
| 28 | We will all look carefully at the conclusions that it draws from its work and from the evidence submitted to it . |
| 29 | Look up at the rooftops and you will see things you have never noticed before . |
| 30 | If a customer 's circumstances change adversely for reasons beyond the customer 's control , the finance company will look sympathetically at the circumstances and will try , subject to any restrictions placed upon it by the Consumer Credit Act 1974 , to reach an accommodation with the customer to pay off the outstanding balance in a practicable manner . |