Example sentences of "[noun sg] look [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complacent citizen looks up and sees a distant jet 's contrails , whooshing along in impressive white streams . |
| 2 | Dot looked upwards and saw the smiling clown . |
| 3 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 4 | Budgets compel management to look ahead and set short-term targets . |
| 5 | The boy looked up and asked : |
| 6 | Hardly a word had passed between them but now the gunman looked up and said quietly , ‘ There is nothing that I can do . ’ |
| 7 | However , just as Norman had got up and down from another bunker for his last round of 69 , so did Beck , firmly sinking a putt of six feet as the Australian looked on and reflected on what might have been . |
| 8 | The skinhead looked up and noticed his new adversary coming to the rescue of the hapless businessman , who was feebly cringing on the ground . |
| 9 | Then fitzAlan looked up and saw her , and the hard look of danger vanished . |
| 10 | Providing opportunities runs through two aspects of management : unless colleagues are given the opportunity to understand the world outside education , unless they have the opportunity to look around and to come to some new conclusions of their own about what they are doing , the head will say that he or she is failing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Mama looked up and gave a great big sigh . |
| 13 | ‘ Sausage ! ’ said Breeze , and her peculiar pet looked up and winked . |
| 14 | Mamma looked down and shook her head . |
| 15 | Peeling and torn adverts advertise the ‘ Summer Sun ’ a middle aged woman , in a tweed suit looks up and reads it as an excuse to turn away from her neighbour , an ‘ undesirable type ’ or a young again middle aged man greased back hair , a black fake leather jacket with sheep skin bits appearing here and there and a necklace protruding from his left nostril eventually attaching itself to his right ear . |
| 16 | There will be an annual review of your financial circumstances which will give you a chance to look ahead and anticipate any changes which might be necessary to your care arrangements . |
| 17 | On a sudden instinct Burun looked round and saw that the offworlder Suragai was standing at the water 's edge . |
| 18 | The tramp looked up and glared maliciously back ; he was sucking on a chicken bone and the stubble of his beard glistened . |
| 19 | The tramp looked up and saw her . |
| 20 | The worshipper looked up and wondered . |
| 21 | In this sense of the term , regionalism is a view from the centre looking out and suffers from similar tensions to those faced by would-be planners . |
| 22 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 23 | He nearly made it , but at the last moment the big boar looked up and put in his own charge . |
| 24 | The old man looked up and asked his name . |
| 25 | The man looked disbelievingly and laughed : ‘ Christ ! |
| 26 | First Man looked down and saw that he was naked , and hurried away to find fig leaves to cover himself … |
| 27 | Right let's have a wee look here and see if we can make it sore . |
| 28 | On hearing George Marsh shout , then scream , those in the box looked out and saw momentarily the terrifying apparition seconds before it disappeared . |
| 29 | The Doctor looked up and put on his spectacles which immediately slid down the perspiration on his nose . |
| 30 | The nation looked on and failed to notice the difference . |