Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] look in " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 2 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |
| 3 | He was beginning to get to know them as individuals and to glimpse their relationships but he could never be more than the outsider looking in . |
| 4 | Self-evaluation , no matter how carefully the staff and governors try to be objective , lacks the valuable insight of someone genuinely on the outside looking in . |
| 5 | I was on the outside looking in . |
| 6 | I was on the inside of Christian faith , yet in my mind I was also on the outside looking in . |
| 7 | There are not many harsher disappointments in county cricket than finding yourself on the outside looking in , as was the case with another Robinson — Phil — at the start of this season following his acrimonious departure from Yorkshire . |
| 8 | For example , the saying ‘ On the outside looking in ’ , is a typical phrase from traditional black American subculture . |
| 9 | We began our discussion of the policy-making process by considering the roles of parties and pressure groups as if they were on the outside looking in , so to speak . |
| 10 | No access to the Internet can leave you on the outside looking in , ignorance of the Internet means you do not even know there is a window on this information world . |
| 11 | I begin to appreciate for the first time , as I stand here on the outside looking in , how very reserved is the world in which we work . |
| 12 | When you are on the outside looking in , the ways of the police can seem frightening and strange . |
| 13 | The Chief Detective Inspector who would later take on the investigation looked in , and exchanged a few words with the Detective-Sergeant . |
| 14 | The conductor looked in on them , eyebrows raised . |
| 15 | She showed no objection to Billy scaling the ladder to look in . |
| 16 | Every day a district nurse visits and every night a sister looks in . |
| 17 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you get a chance to look in at the side studio , when they were there last Friday ? |
| 19 | ‘ From my point of view it was like a child climbing up on a wall to look in but she rushed back and said : ‘ No , I ca n't do it , ’ and started crying in my arms . |
| 20 | In one case the Divisional Court held that assault was committed where a woman was frightened by the sight of a man looking in through the window of her house , although there seems to have been little suggestion that the man was threatening to apply force either immediately or at all . |
| 21 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 22 | Let's have a wee look in with my torch . |
| 23 | a wee look in with my , my torch for a moment . |
| 24 | BRITISH painting has always had a tendency to look in upon itself , but never more so than when the Napoleonic wars rendered travel on the Continent impossible . |