Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Li Yuan stood with his father at the centre of the viewing circle , looking down at the great globe of Chung Kuo , one hundred and sixty thousand li below . |
| 3 | Looking up at the great leather bag of water and the funnel to be inserted into her mouth , the murderess had said , ‘ What , all that water for poor little me ? ’ |
| 4 | He is standing as he must have stood that afternoon on the shore of the Gulf of San Miguel , four-square and haughty , bucklered , helmeted , spurred , and looking out over the greatest ocean in the world . |
| 5 | Look up at the Great Tower which was built by the sons of Peter Parler in 1396 : -1406 , with a Renaissance gallery by B. Wohlmut , 1560–2 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From Middenheim 's many tall towers it is possible to look out over the Great Forest to the south and the Drakwald to the west , a carpet of treetops stretching in every direction save eastwards , where the rising Middle Mountains burst from the forest floor , tall and jagged , and the colour of thunder clouds . |
| 8 | I think secondly erm whichever country , and you do look back to your roots , and we for better or for worse here look back to the great public school headmaster of a century ago and I still think people want that kind of dynamic drive , that entrepreneurial drive , and who 's to say they 're wrong ? |
| 9 | He looked up at the great tower soaring above him . |