Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Sebastiane , the six-foot-two model who looks more like a champion hurdler than a clothes-horse , strides into the room in flat shoes . |
| 14 | Looks more like a cotton wool factory than a cherry orchard . |
| 15 | ‘ Looks more like a home prescription to me , ’ the man said gloomily when he returned with a phial of pills . |
| 16 | A far cry from her ‘ strong woman with positive aggression ’ image , the photo looks more like a family snapshot . |
| 17 | The tax schedule in the UK looks more like the schedule OBDEF . |
| 18 | ‘ Looks more like the communications centre of a nuclear sub . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Nick Clark looks back over the Maxwell era . ) |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |