Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] look [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inbuilt bias towards the big clubs has undoubtedly fuelled inflation in the transfer market ; one has only to look at Manchester United , who raked in nearly £1m from television last season . |
| 2 | Anybody who has ever looked at sections of a rat 's brain and then at sections of a monkey 's brain will tell you that they look completely different . |
| 3 | Norway has always looked to Sweden for breeding influence . |
| 4 | The world has always looked to Britain for stability , inventiveness and general mental agility , yet our National Prestige is low , our currency is less than one third of its immediate post-war value against the dollar and can not be explained entirely as a result of market speculation . |
| 5 | THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province . |
| 6 | ‘ The UAE has traditionally looked to France to supply their defence needs . ’ |
| 7 | Half-way through the lesson , the class gathers round to look at works by Klee , Stanley Spencer , Ingres , Vuillard , Braque . |
| 8 | The researcher goes out looking for respondents who conform to the quota requirements , either by knocking on doors or by asking people in the street to participate : it must be stressed that the point is not to interview everyone who happens to live on the street or who happens to pass by , but only those who conform to the quota controls and in the proportions specified . |
| 9 | She do n't help out or nothing — she just sits on the bench , or wanders round looking at things , but I think she likes it . |
| 10 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 11 | She goes round looking at cocks does she ? |
| 12 | He does not look at society from afar , through the wrong end of a telescope , as is the usual practice of professional historians . |
| 13 | I hope that God does not look at life in quite that way . |
| 14 | The need for reality is satisfied in that Septimus Quinn , for all his impetuosity , does not look upon war as fun , nor does he abdicate his responsibility for the men whom , from time to time , he is called upon to lead . |
| 15 | Sharpe has been down with a calf strain this week but he trained yesterday and does not look in danger . |
| 16 | Sam does still look on Jessica as his little girl sometimes . |
| 17 | We all know how to use pens , we were taught how to use pen in primary school , but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but is reading something which does n't look like letters of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 18 | Now you can assume that whoever put him in just made a mistake , or panicked , and could n't find enough bullets , or something , but the careful cutting out of all those clothes labels does n't look like panic , or making careless mistakes . |
| 19 | Does n't look like Italy . |
| 20 | ‘ He does n't look like Simon , ’ Vitor said . |
| 21 | It does n't look like camera shake . |
| 22 | We all know how to use pens — we were taught how to use a pen in primary school — but the computer ca n't read our writing yet , so we use something which looks like a pen , but it 's reading something which does n't look like letter of the alphabet and words , but which it can understand and understand very quickly and very accurately indeed . |
| 23 | The lively Georgetown faces suddenly looked like masks . |