Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TEACHERS of young children are being looked on by the Government as ‘ not a lot more than well-disciplined child-minders , ’ a senior Belfast education adviser claimed today . |
| 2 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 3 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 4 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 5 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 6 | George looks back to the past and Nick looks forward to the future . |
| 7 | COLM MURPHY looks back to the future as Clandeboye 's golfers prepare for an All-Ireland double assault in the national Cup and Shield finals at Woodbrook next weekend . |
| 8 | I could not have looked out of the window if I had tried , the chores were all done , and there was nothing whatever to do except sit at that table and write . |
| 9 | Set in the hillside just below the resort 's town centre , the Hotel Miramare looks out over the sea and the lovely bay of Mazzaro Beach . |
| 10 | And the golden face looks out from the icon and glows , |
| 11 | I would remained erm close to the doorway covering the internal hallway er effectively looking down towards the kitchen and the living room area . |
| 12 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 13 | But I will never forget that time we both watched your father walking back and forth in front of the summerhouse , looking down at the ground as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there . ’ |
| 14 | I used to wonder just what the kestrel was looking at , what it was thinking , and I 'd imagine how wonderful it must be to be suspended in mid-air , looking down on the Earth as it was . |
| 15 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 16 | She shivered a little , leaning on the balustrade and looking down into the darkness while he gave some instructions to the maid . |
| 17 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 18 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 19 | She wailed , standing there , looking in at the room that had nothing left of him . |
| 20 | People and animals portray in this , in the Tahiti painting , never seemed to be in a hurry , erm , even when always relaxed even when working and I wondered how much of this was cultural and erm , how much was due to the large amounts of erm drugs consumed in most paintings at this , this period but that I suppose I 'll , I 'll never know for sure about , erm with this painting I found in the background , er there 's a figure , that 's looking in on the situation and I , I for myself think 's its probably Gaugin , as he portrays himself as Christ , which I think he did quite a lot to me in , in , in a few of his paintings and so this painting gave me tremendous sense of being looked in on and this figure in the background , was the person that was doing the looking in . |
| 21 | We lay in the grass looking up at the sky and the fluttering leaves on the silver birch trees , sucking on our reed stalks and talking about girls . |
| 22 | ‘ Lot of paper in tonight , is n't there ? ’ said Bartlemas , looking up to the Circle and Gallery . |
| 23 | The view looking back to the station and 61094 — its departure was at 16.20 . |
| 24 | Jack paused indecisively , looking back at the Glory and wondering if there was any connection between its abandoned state and the mysterious figures on the hill . |
| 25 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 26 | And I was looking out through the door and you have n't got five minutes longer . |
| 27 | 1After the first few days , when I come into the room , Birdie is down on the floor of the cage , running back and forth , looking out over the barrier that holds in the gravel . |
| 28 | There was a seat against a sunny back wall , and I would come upon the couple sitting there looking out over the garden and their handiwork , planning in quiet voices what should be done next , the next moves . |
| 29 | Larry Cummins recollected , ‘ I was looking out of the window while seated at my navigator 's table , and I saw a sizeable hole suddenly appear in the left wing . |
| 30 | He noticed , looking out of the window that there was a lot of snow left in the garden , white , not dirtied at all , piled up against the fence . |