Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She paced around the room thinking desperately , she needed free reign to look over her father 's books and records and to speak to the men in his employ . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Why is residential care looked on with special pessimism by social workers ? |
| 34 | Nowadays ryokan supply guests with a small suite including private bathroom separate toilet ( western ) , a small dressing/undressing room , and often a narrow wooden porch looking out on to the garden where there is the only reminder of western custom , a small table and two easy chairs . |
| 35 | The two old boys looked up from their dominoes . |
| 36 | The two boys dressed , with a social worker looking on . |
| 37 | They sometimes have unusual parenting styles and some , though by no means all , find that having a social worker looking over their shoulder makes them feel uncomfortable and unnecessarily unsure of themselves . |
| 38 | On the other hand , a shot taken from a high angle to look down on the subject diminishes it and suggests a feeling of superiority . |
| 39 | It is not just that high myth looks down towards low present reality . |
| 40 | The faces in the old photographs look out solemnly and silently at us . |
| 41 | He stopped on the top step to look down at her , and there was no mistaking the mocking glitter in his eyes now . |
| 42 | Information on matters like drug and solvent abuse is widely available and will also tell you what signs of possible abuse to look out for . |
| 43 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 44 | When it came to Glasgow fun Fergus stood alone , but Lord Roberts , that same whose statue and cuddy stand in splendid isolation looking down on Kelvin Park from Park Circus , told the graduation audience in Glasgow University in 1913 that , ‘ Britain stands alone still ’ . |
| 45 | Delighted shoppers looked on as the dancers weaved their way past Darlington Dolphin Centre . |
| 46 | Then he turned , facing Hammond , his dark eyes looking up at him challengingly . |
| 47 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 48 | Then he paused as he stood there , dark eyes looking down at her . |
| 49 | The dark eyes looked up and saw Jenna 's interest . |
| 50 | Innocent and anxious , her father 's long-lashed dark eyes looked up bright as swords . |
| 51 | When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her . |
| 52 | The dark gaze looked back at her , hard to decipher , though at least she could see he did not appear to be joking . |
| 53 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 54 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 55 | They had never met before , but as soon as Duroc was inside the Agency 's inner sanctum , the Chief Op looked up from his blondwood desk , flashed a monied piranha grin , and acted as if his visitor were an old college buddy who had happened to have walked in off the street . |
| 56 | There was a great noise of shuffling boots and dropped books , and the readers already established in the outer room looked up and clicked disapproval with their tongues . |
| 57 | His perfect profile looked off down the rows of brightly coloured packets . |
| 58 | Damian turned his dark head to look down at her , and her gaze lifted to his mouth . |
| 59 | It would not take much to turn fiercely independent professionals into demoralised , tame civil servants looking over their shoulders rather than at patients . |
| 60 | When the Stockton and Darlington Railway first rolled through the countryside in the 1820s , there really was n't very much in the Middleton area for a bored passenger to look out at from a window . |