Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 2 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 7 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 11 | Executive Support Manager Allan Paterson looks back over the TOP Programme as it has progressed at Hunterston and considers some of its achievements . |
| 12 | There 's an ‘ honesty ’ bar where you get your drinks yourself , and observation lounge which looks out over the lovely sweep of Broadford Bay . |
| 13 | I sat on the earth banking that looks out over the Muddy Creek and ate an apple . |
| 14 | Looks out towards the unseen sea |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Louise gave an exclamation of displeasure , and Edouard rose to his feet , Grégoire remained absolutely still , looking down at the smashed cup . |
| 18 | " You know the one I mean , " Graham said , looking down at the blocked-off fireplace and snapping his fingers . |
| 19 | But today Tilda was alone , looking down at the slanting angle of the decks as the cables gave or tightened , the passive shoreline , the secret water . |
| 20 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 21 | They both stood looking down at the poor sufferer , neither speaking . |
| 22 | Shutting the door softly behind her , Theda tiptoed to the bed and stood looking down at the still figure in some alarm . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | She stood looking down at the tiny fireplace . |
| 25 | The others , grouped around him , stood in silence looking down at the stricken man . |
| 26 | He lifted her up on to the parapet of a little bridge , and she screamed , looking down at the dark water below . |
| 27 | Now the police , the ambulance crews , the crowd , the reporter , were approaching the pit , looking down at the grey shard that was all that was left of the Kershaw Worm . |
| 28 | It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’ |
| 29 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face . |