Example sentences of "[noun pl] and look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has good head-retention characteristics and looks well in a straight-sided glass . |
| 2 | Dandelion muttered , " Leave the warren , Frithrah ! " while Blackberry twitched his ears and looked very intently , first at Bigwig and then at Hazel . |
| 3 | One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught . |
| 4 | Then the Lad darted across the room like a fleeing hare , and vanished , and Calatin opened his eyes and looked right at them . |
| 5 | After the failed June 1953 uprising , crushed by Soviet tanks , ‘ people shut their eyes and looked away ’ , said Heiko , a 19-year-old factory worker , after a packed service in the Gethsemane church , in recent weeks a centre of opposition . |
| 6 | He glimpsed the tenderness in her eyes and looked away , embarrassed . |
| 7 | To her horror she felt the sting of tears in her eyes and looked away again , refusing to let him see her moment of weakness . |
| 8 | I rolled my eyes and looked away . |
| 9 | To her horror Rory felt the sting of tears behind her eyes and looked away helplessly . |
| 10 | She opened her eyes and looked straight into the beautiful face of the Italian . |
| 11 | He opened his eyes and looked straight at her . |
| 12 | I had a terrible shock when you opened your eyes and looked so steadily at me . |
| 13 | Lambert opened his eyes and looked bleakly at the map . |
| 14 | By the length of the pause that followed , before he opened his eyes and looked dazedly down to see what fate had granted him , he went in some devout fear of his deserving . |
| 15 | He blinked his boiled eyes and looked suddenly shy . |
| 16 | Clara Beeding opened her eyes and looked quite relieved to see Jasper Lewens , Tracy Johnson and the guy with the wart . |
| 17 | It was only the sun , flashing briefly on her bleached hair , that made him shade his eyes and look again in that direction . |
| 18 | Instead , grounded women shade their eyes and look resentfully out to sea . |
| 19 | His face was very close to hers and he suddenly took off his spectacles and looked deeply into her eyes . |
| 20 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 21 | As the sun sank lower and touched the edge of the cloudbelt on the horizon , Hazel came out from under the branches and looked carefully round the lower slope . |
| 22 | She was sitting on the bed beside him , clutching his shoulders and looking almost frightened . |
| 23 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 24 | Moodie licked his lips and looked nervously at Queen Margaret . |
| 25 | Will licked his lips and looked uncertainly towards Hari . |
| 26 | She licked her lips and looked once more at Cleo . |
| 27 | The monk licked his lips and looked sideways at the Bishop . |
| 28 | He stuffed his hands deep into his greatcoat pockets and looked more miserable than ever . |
| 29 | He stumbled to his feet and looked frantically about him , because although no self-respecting Gruagach would run from a danger , these creatures were too many and too huge and too angry . |
| 30 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |