Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 2 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 3 | Their Victorian furniture , which had never looked right in the pre-war semi , was very much at home in their new house — they just needed more of it . |
| 4 | In this process in which the psychiatrist ( or psychoanalyst ) looks outwards from the individual psyche into his patient 's social network , he inevitably moves into territory which the social anthropologist ( and in Europe the sociologist ) regards as his — hence , of course , the boundary disputes alluded to above . |
| 5 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 6 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 7 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
| 8 | With its grey plumage , barred underside and hawk-like shape and silhouette , the European cuckoo looks deceptively like the predatory sparrowhawk — the two are often confused . |
| 9 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 10 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 11 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 12 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 13 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 14 | And it , kind of faces both ways , it , it looks back to the early period of the development of Freud 's thought that we 've already spoken about , and its beginnings back in the eighteen nineties , and in certain other respects , it looks forward , to the kind of revolution that was going to occur after World War Two . |
| 15 | This old way , ‘ With an alien people clutching their gods ’ , looks back to the savage world which Eliot had been exploring , the world trapped in the ritual of ‘ birth , and copulation , and death ’ . |
| 16 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 17 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 18 | There 's an ‘ honesty ’ bar where you get your drinks yourself , and observation lounge which looks out over the lovely sweep of Broadford Bay . |
| 19 | I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple . |
| 20 | Looks out towards the unseen sea |
| 21 | The hotel 's spacious restaurant looks out across the broad sun terrace and offers well-supervised cuisine with a choice of both typical local specialities and international cooking . |
| 22 | We have only really looked closely at the local analysis of one particular kind of homoclinic orbit ( in section 6.4 ) ; such local analyses are interesting in their own right , but are relatively well known { 37 } . |
| 23 | He particularly looks forward to the new community centre being built and , with a personal interest in sport , is keen that while still remaining a play area , the football field is developed and used for more formal games . |
| 24 | The broader , freer modelling in others , such as the Theseus and Amazon ( fig. 64 ) , looks forward to the classical style . |
| 25 | The Lost Prince in particular belongs to a long tradition of didacticism in stones for the young while in its rapid pace and direct style it looks forward to the growing body of junior adventure stones of the late 1920s and the 1930s when children were to play a leading , active part in important , often great events . |
| 26 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 27 | He had looked forward to the long drive to Wales as an opportunity to push out the boundaries of their friendship , to gauge whether it might flourish in more normal circumstances than those in which it had begun . |
| 28 | Graham Hamilton looks ahead to the new hockey season |
| 29 | It is the slender , wheat-coloured , lyre-horned Froment du Léon , which looks very like the old dun Shetland cows of the early twentieth century and almost identical to the modern Guernsey in conformation but not in horn . |
| 30 | While tearing out the old central heating and installing new , they had daringly put in new patio windows looking on to the rear garden ( where they had done away with mouldy flowerbeds full of Michaelmas daisies and had built a tiled area complete with ornamental pool and a lion 's head which dripped water into the pool ) , as well as redecorating most of the house in a lighter , more ‘ eighties ’ , way . |