Example sentences of "[vb past] look [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The feeling of fear had subsided somewhat and I remembered looking into the rubble-strewn backyards and thinking how sad it was that they were now in ruin , as last time I was at the station they were occupied . |
| 32 | She liked to look at the dreadful toxins through the jewelled prison of their coloured glass bottles : ruby red , peridot green , indigo blue . |
| 33 | We learned to look for the black tongue , water that would take us between rocks . |
| 34 | Dulé leaned to look at the dark husk that was the old woman 's body ; shadows bound the close air inside the room and he could see her only as a lighter shape . |
| 35 | In the First World War radicals had looked to the emerging superpowers to enable democratic movements to set Europe to rights — whether by the enforcement of a Pax Americana , or by the boost given by the Russian Revolution to the campaign for a negotiated peace . |
| 36 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |
| 37 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 38 | And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life . |
| 39 | Or that was how it had looked on the final report . |
| 40 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 41 | Even before the earthquake of 1977 had provided the opportunity and excuse for clearance , various Romanian architects and planners but also potential patrons , from Carol II onwards , had looked on the so-called burnt-palace site as a suitable location for redevelopment . |
| 42 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 43 | ‘ None of us could be sure if we would have a job tomorrow ; the uncertainty was preventing us winning new business ; and we had looked at the various companies who were rumoured to be bidding for us and did n't like what we saw . ’ |
| 44 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 45 | In reminding himself that his responsibilities were for the President , he recalled the way that Mariana had looked at the old man that first day when he had met them out on the dock , the President casting for bonefish . |
| 46 | Benny had looked at the cream-coloured blouses and soft pink angora sweaters . |
| 47 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 48 | ‘ Life has changed , Shama , ’ I said looking at the Japanese thermos on the chair by my bed and the round box of Danish biscuits which I had been given ‘ in case you are hungry in the night ’ . |
| 49 | Class 313s continued to look after the inner suburban system , and the now non-standard 1977-series Class 312s were packed off to the Colchester line . |
| 50 | Consolidation would be little help if one still had to look at the old repealed Acts in order to interpret the new one . |
| 51 | Suddenly , people were suggesting charity records for every tragedy that occurred , and while money was raised for worthwhile causes , such as the survivors of the Bradford City fire or the sunken Herald Of Free Enterprise ferry , one only had to look at the ropier ideas for fund-raising to question the motives involved . |
| 52 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 53 | For a time the eastern empire was able to maintain itself in Italy , but thereafter the popes had to look to the new Frankish power in the north for their temporal defences . |
| 54 | Aye I had to look through the whole lot of them . |
| 55 | The logic of the approach by Robert White was very sound and , to be frank , it was a very attractive offer and one had to look after the institutional shareholders . |
| 56 | She mounted the steps to the front door of the house and stood looking for the right bell to ring . |
| 57 | Molly stood looking at the lapping water with Ken Corduroy , expert on garden pools and pergolas , who had arrived quite unexpectedly in his Volvo estate . |
| 58 | For a moment she stood looking around the wide hall , closely carpeted in dark , velvety blue which lent an added drama to the vivid Impressionist paintings , the apricot-coloured Knole settee . |
| 59 | So he felt secure as he sat looking over the rolling lawns of Bloomwater . |
| 60 | Geoffrey Howe , the Chancellor of the Exchequer , and Leon Brittan , the Chief Secretary to the Treasury in overall charge of government spending , wanted to look at the longer-term trends and to see how public expenditure could be successfully controlled in the 1980s . |