Example sentences of "[vb past] his [noun] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Harold left his collection to the Corporation of the City of London , but rather than include them in the Guildhall Art Gallery , he left instructions that , due to the fact that he believed his pictures looked best in domestic surroundings , the pictures be installed in the Lord Mayor 's residence , where , unfortunately , they will mostly be inaccessible to the public . |
| 2 | He twisted his head to look upwards , but Moloch was just a faint disc half hidden by the clouds : a burnished coin beneath polluted water . |
| 3 | He raised his head to look down , stretched out his arms : |
| 4 | His parents Kang and Bi explained how little Sheng spent his days looking out the window at the other children playing , knowing he could n't take part . |
| 5 | Then she leant forward and kissed him on the mouth , brushed his lips , stroked them with hers , watched his eyes looking back at her . |
| 6 | Professor Dowd , as he liked to be called — and who cut his hair and trimmed his beard to look just like President Lincoln — probably never travelled to the Pacific , nor to very many other places outside America ; but he had an abiding interest in his country 's enormous and burgeoning railway system , and from that fascination grew a scheme which changed the world — and particularly the Pacific — for ever . |
| 7 | Kelly picked her way through saddles , blankets , old copies of Sporting Life , reflecting that Short 's domestic arrangements made his yard looked positively pristine . |
| 8 | It made his list look very small . |
| 9 | The narrow trousers made his legs look longer , strong and muscular ; the shoes were polished to a high shine . |
| 10 | Equation is seen , for instance , when we recognize a picture of someone we know ; and qualification was at work when a cave painter added the last few touches which made his bison look more energetic and more nearly alive than the others already on the rock face . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 12 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |