Example sentences of "look [adv prt] to the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 2 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 3 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 4 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |
| 5 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 6 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 7 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 8 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 9 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |
| 10 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 11 | PICCADILLY CIRCUS It may be wise to keep your eyes on the traffic , but when you 've reached the island , look up to the Spectacolor board above the corner of Haymarket and Coventry Street . |
| 12 | If he wants a depressing story , he should look back to the housing expenditure of the last Labour Government . |
| 13 | I looked over to the side wall where the postern gate stood and went cold with terror . |
| 14 | He looked back to the Yalta conference as the beginning of a betrayal of European interests by the Superpowers and was determined to assert a new ‘ European ’ role in world affairs , which would also reduce East-West tensions . |
| 15 | The window of Ramsey 's study looked out to the west end of the cathedral . |