Example sentences of "take [adj] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | She takes one look at Gisela and has her fringe cut too . |
| 2 | anyway and everybody just takes one look at it and after everybody in the house has taken one look at it it gets thrown in the bin , if it lasts that long . |
| 3 | He takes one look at it and the next thing is he 's shouting . |
| 4 | Goldie takes one look at Rainbow 's shaggy ankles and sighs ; Rainbow says that if she has to wear tights or stockings , we might as well forget the whole damned thing . |
| 5 | " I 'm Dan Brady , and I 've served the Cause both here and at home since before you were born … so I 'd take that look off your face before I take it off for you . " |
| 6 | One answer seems to be that the market will take another look at Impressionist prints , and those by the Nabis , both of which are beginning to seem undervalued , in comparison with what was produced by their successors . |
| 7 | Doone 's expression assented but he said merely , ‘ I 'll take another look upstairs now , if you please , sir . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ If the financial situation improves , we will take another look at it . ’ |
| 9 | I had all that I had wanted , peace and privacy , a day to myself before Crispin came , and an absolute compulsion to stay indoors and take another look at the poem that had been broken into by the tutorial in Cambridge . |
| 10 | By the time she dared take another look — this time squinting through almost closed eyes — the star 's appearance had completely changed . |
| 11 | ‘ I think I 'll take another look at the Fragonards before I go . |
| 12 | Cos even National Savings cycle over a five year period , and what you want to achieve is money coming back into your hands regularly over that period so you can take another look at what you 're doing . |
| 13 | In the meantime , she might just as well take another look at those ledgers and see if she could make any sense of them . |
| 14 | ‘ Plenty of fluids , and if he is n't looking decidedly better in a couple of days , come back and we 'll take another look , but I 'm sure you do n't need to worry . ’ |
| 15 | Similar things like inflexible , okay , let's take another look at some of these words , it 's not so much of this where they 're an asset , , now I would imagine , that some of these as well as being things possibly you 'd say to your , your colleagues when you 're down the pub talking about your staff . |
| 16 | Well I think we should take another look at what you actually said this time with subtitles for those poor people who are n't telepathic . |
| 17 | But perhaps it would not come , after all , perhaps they would take one look at Mrs Thorne and refuse her admittance into a ward of lunatic old ladies . |
| 18 | ‘ Julius will take one look at you and wonder why he ever bothered to kiss you last night . ’ |
| 19 | They 'll take one look at my clothes and know I 'm as poor as a church mouse . ’ |
| 20 | They 're gon na take one look at you and run the other way ! |
| 21 | ( Moreover , the very fact of our taking that look can , as Werner Heisenberg pointed out , anyway affect the behaviour of the particle concerned . |
| 22 | Andrew had turned his head , taking another look at his protégée . |
| 23 | I notice that the Commons Environment Committee is taking another look at energy efficiency . |
| 24 | If so , the Government should be taking another look at the amount of grant that that council receives . |
| 25 | Next week we shall be taking another look at education , and in particular comprehensive schools . |
| 26 | Six years after the film 's first run , Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice of December 1973 took another look at it . |
| 27 | Miss Emilia Thorne gazed at Willie , stared at Tom and then took another look at Willie . |
| 28 | He took another look around . |
| 29 | Now that she took another look at it , it was a rather insignificant sort of nose on which any pair of spectacles might be expected to slip . |
| 30 | And Jed took another look around and made a face that suggested mild indifference lying over mild disapproval . |