Example sentences of "look [adv] at [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ Hello stranger , ’ Cormack had said aggressively , and Amanda had looked nervously at the two men . |
| 3 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 4 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 5 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 6 | But even so Elizabeth should have known what she was walking into , should have looked closely at the encircling fields , the rock-built house and Hywel all muddy and iced and quiet from winter toil . |
| 7 | 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 } . |
| 8 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 9 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 10 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 11 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 12 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 13 | I 'm looking outside at the lovely trees changing the colour . |
| 14 | He lay in bed , looking calmly at the white ceiling . |
| 15 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 16 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 17 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 18 | ‘ Was it terrible ? ’ he asked , looking questioningly at the empty chair , as if asking their permission to sit down . |
| 19 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 20 | ‘ That will put your mother to a great deal of expense , ’ said Lessing , looking severely at the young man over his spectacles . |
| 21 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 22 | ‘ Yes , well , I do n't know why anybody should have planted trees just here , ’ said Chris Growcott , looking disparagingly at the weedy wood nearby . |
| 23 | She nodded then turned away , looking across at the ancient pomegranate trees , flicking her fan open as she did so . |
| 24 | Meg sat facing him , looking across at the eastern shore . |
| 25 | I could see the neighbours looking curiously at the big box he had with him . |
| 26 | It has expanded into Africa , Hong Kong and New Zealand , and it is looking closely at the early moves towards privatisation of British Rail . |
| 27 | The Clinton administration is said to be looking again at the tangible objectives underlying the federal government 's support for research ( see page 776 ) , while the British government , in the shape of the Department of Trade and Industry , is seeking a more direct ( if a more avuncular than the American ) role in fostering industrial competitiveness . |
| 28 | Mr Brunhead , who represented Thames Transit Limited stated that the City Council could just be proud of what it had done , for public transport , and he was aware that the city council was looking again at the balanced transport policy , and ways of making the city centre more viable for bus and for public transport . |
| 29 | Some further light can be thrown on the importance of age by looking briefly at the differential performance of students with traditional qualifications in different age groups . |
| 30 | Moreover , attractiveness must be defined in terms of looking ahead at the likely state of the industry over the usual sort of investment time horizon for that industry . |