Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 2 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |
| 3 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 4 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 5 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 6 | She walked into Cotherstone at seven o clock every morning to keep house for the ‘ Bothy Boys , the lads who looked after the hounds . |
| 7 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 8 | So much happening here at the moment as the ball was followed up by David he looked at the referee as er challenge him for the er shove inside the penalty area but the referee was unimpressed by that , Blackburn have already got one penalty here tonight from which they 've scored , Shrewsbury have scored from a penalty too and it 's the third division side still in the lead here by three goals to two . |
| 9 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 10 | I saw the monster arrive from the marsh he looked at the when I saw him I ran |
| 11 | For a moment on Saturday it looked on the cards that the same word might forever snap the players of Torquay United the other way . |
| 12 | Under the old set up , I ran a course which looked at the problems of language learning chronologically . |
| 13 | There were n't many others , er perhaps only four more er in the in the town , but we were associated with the with the er branch which looked after the interests of the co-op employees . |
| 14 | Patrick took his tea and went up to the first floor , to the long landing window which looked over the village green . |
| 15 | Ian , Maureen and Paul , with representatives from each C&P works , formed a cross-function CAT which looked into the problem , designed a new system and scrapped the two useless ones . |
| 16 | It was all over a Brazilian boy who looked after the props . |
| 17 | And the men , from Corporal John Carrow who looked after the cars in the depot to which Liza was attached , upwards to the brigadiers and generals whom she drove , were all , little or much , aware of this striking-looking girl in the perfectly fitting uniform , whose expression seemed to alternate so swiftly and appealingly between gaiety and despair . |
| 18 | In 1980 the CDP was talking of CNAA ‘ dogmatism ’ , and in suggesting the establishment of a liaison body with the CNAA it looked for the establishment of a ‘ special relationship ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ In the very early days I looked at the market and decided one of the things I wanted to do was to build a big PR company because the market suffered from too many small companies . |
| 20 | The Doctrine of Signatures became fashionable , the theory of which was that plants which looked like the symptoms of an illness would cure it — lungwort or pulmonaria is a case in point , since it was used for lung conditions , because its white-spotted leaves were thought to bear some resemblance to diseased lungs . |
| 21 | The room which looked over the Embankment site of the building was a mix of his own and Civil Service furnishings . |
| 22 | From that moment he looked after the rose garden and when the war came he said , ‘ Look here , if we get through this all right , we 'll make a garden together . ’ |
| 23 | In the packed cathedral I looked past the broad , shining black plaits of the campesinas , the little , pert pigtails of the girls , up the aisle at the scarlet and gold draped Virgin , her arms outstretched in benediction beneath her gold pillared arch . |
| 24 | In the spreading lull she looked towards the others . |
| 25 | Now , I must confess I had n't seen much of Mr Wogan before I met him because , when I got my television set at Low Birk Hatt , Richard Megstone , the nice young gentleman who looked after the Youth Hostel in Baldersdale and kindly took care of my electrical things , said I had a choice — either BBC1 or Channel 4 . |
| 26 | He was on his feet now , turning up his collar , pulling the tie around his neck the while he looked towards the house . |
| 27 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 28 | Next morning I looked at the picture critically in the white daylight . |
| 29 | It is important for the Government to pursue other involved parties — including the company itself , but also the finan cial advisers who put savers into the Gibraltar fund without inquiring too much about how it was able to offer such high rates of interest , not to mention the auditors who looked at the books . |
| 30 | A third man , Romany , the mechanic who looked after the engine , squatted in the bow , sleepily making tea . |