Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [pron] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then at odd times he looks up and sees it again . |
| 2 | At some point during this soliloquy I look down and notice man 's best friend humbly licking my shoe . |
| 3 | He was reading a newspaper , but every few minutes he looked up from it , to talk to me . |
| 4 | In this chapter I look back over responses to the challenges of curriculum planning and development in Africa in the ‘ sixties and ‘ seventies . |
| 5 | The second , and less obvious , was Lindsay Anderson 's film This Sporting Life where Hartnell took the role of an ageing rugby talent scout ; a somewhat sad and reflective character who looked back with fondness on his years in the game . |
| 6 | She had had enough of these old people who looked down at her from their height of years , who always knew what was best for her . |
| 7 | The Kingman model of language was greeted with anger by some teachers who looked back nostalgically to the 1960s , but it paved the way for a more judicious approach to the teaching of English . |
| 8 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 9 | ‘ One day she had brought the dinners and started home , when for some reason she looked back . |
| 10 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 11 | The first seventeen chapters of Scale 2 provide a context for this discussion which looks back to Scale 1 . |
| 12 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 13 | From the outside terrace he looked down on to his own tiled patio , no more than about twelve feet beneath . |
| 14 | In the following paragraphs we look in more detail at the reasons which have encouraged a number of large manufacturers to start making or make greater use of temporary workers , at the terms and conditions under which these temporary workers are engaged , especially the forms of contract which are used , and at the characteristics of the temporary workers themselves . |
| 15 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 16 | In 15 years the couple have added so many features and new plants to their garden that it bears no relation to the bare and treeless area they look over . |
| 17 | It took Quiss longer than he had expected to get to the castle kitchens ; they 'd changed some of the corridors and stairways en route from the games room to the lower levels , and Quiss , taking what he thought was the usual way , had found himself making an unexpected left turn and coming to a windy , deserted , echoing chamber which looked out over the white landscape to the tall wooden towers of the slate mines . |
| 18 | During one such stop I looked up . |
| 19 | I used to , as my mother put it , ‘ curl up with a book ’ on a broad shelf which ran the length of one wall under shaky moorish windows which looked out over the golf course . |
| 20 | ‘ Through dark doorways you look down flights of stone steps , overhung by great , pink tufts of valerian and ending in a patch of sparkling blue water . ’ |
| 21 | On a gentler note , two richly evocative novels which look back to different eras . |
| 22 | Now , after almost fifty years we look back and the rich variety of our doings in the years between fulfills the concept of university as a preparation for life rather than training for a specific walk of life . |
| 23 | At that moment he looked up and saw Oliver watching him . |
| 24 | It brought a painful flush to her cheeks and at that moment he looked up and saw her . |
| 25 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 26 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 27 | Startled by a sudden noise he looked out to see a Junkers Ju 88 flying low but , luckily , into mist . |
| 28 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 29 | In the first of three parts we look back at the working life of country people featured in ’ Twenty-Four Square Miles ’ |
| 30 | Each day we look out for the postman — but so far there 's been nothing . |