Example sentences of "[noun] looked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs. Hennessy looked at the open suitcase . |
| 2 | He even switched on the blue urinal lamp to see how its light looked against the clean walls . |
| 3 | Travers looked around the squalid room . |
| 4 | Dot looked at the other children 's beds . |
| 5 | At first , Marie looked towards the open back door . |
| 6 | Corbett looked into the green darkness , straining his eyes to see any movement and almost screamed with terror as a hand touched his leg . |
| 7 | Corbett looked at the old drunken face and knew Benstede was being sardonic . |
| 8 | Corbett looked at the faded , secret seal of his royal master . |
| 9 | Gaveston looked at the young page boy standing near him , a goblet of wine in his small white hands . |
| 10 | Bernice looked around the mediaeval castle . |
| 11 | They advocated returning the land to the peasants and drastically reforming the agricultural system ; in foreign policy the parties looked towards the European Communities ( EC ) and the Western democracies . |
| 12 | We now know from Russian eyes , particularly from Khrushchev 's much suspected but surely authentic memoirs , how precarious and nerve-ridden the future looked to the Communist high command when Stalin succumbed to his stroke on 5 March , 1953 . |
| 13 | This retrospective casenote study looked at the early course of schizophrenia in Asians , Afro-Caribbeans , and Whites presenting for admission with a first psychotic episode , to All Saints Hospital , Birmingham ( n= 137 ) over a 24 month period . |
| 14 | Sister Rosario looked at the pinched face of Maura Ryan and her heart went out to the child . |
| 15 | They sat for hours drinking tea in Mrs. Mounce 's flat downstairs , while Mrs. Mounce talked about her affairs with moustached men in export-import , and Tessa looked at the little bit here and the little bit there which Mrs. Mounce had done herself to brighten her own place up . |
| 16 | Rincewind looked at the tiny square of glass in astonishment . |
| 17 | Sharpe looked down the high street , half expecting to see French Dragoons galloping into the small village , but it was only the Prince of Orange who had abandoned his carriage and taken a horse from one of his escort . |
| 18 | Rachaela looked at the weird miniature woman her daughter had become . |
| 19 | But in the design of Moscow 's Riga and Yaroslavl Stations , Russia looked to the other strand of her heritage — the East , producing veritable Oriental fantasies . |
| 20 | Their later work looked at the smoking habits and health of doctors and led to the crucial evidence that those who stopped smoking eventually lost their increased risk of lung cancer . |
| 21 | Maggie looked for the old damson tree by McCabe 's , the crab and wild cherry . |
| 22 | Karen looked at the old man and for a moment she saw something cold and frightening in his smiling eyes . |
| 23 | Beyond the window the desert looked like the tough dry hide of some prehistoric beast . |
| 24 | Twoflower and Hrun looked around the little hollow where they had made their noonday halt . |
| 25 | Duncan looked at the long green grass and , as he looked , the wind blew strong and the tall , green grasses swayed and whispered in the wind . |
| 26 | At first Christians looked upon the risen Jesus as the Messiah whose return was imminent and would bring to an end the existing world-order . |
| 27 | In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day , the position of the Moon . |
| 28 | Stephen looked at the insipid light-beige stain and said what he thought . |
| 29 | Mrs Lynde looked at the thin little girl in the short dress , with her freckled face and red hair . |
| 30 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |