Example sentences of "always looked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plataia , however , the main state south of the River Asopos , always looked towards Athens and her democracy : the connection actually went back to 519 BC when Kleomenes of Sparta told Plataia to attach herself to Athens ( p. 20 , and cp. p. 19 on Thespiai and attikismos ) . |
| 2 | Whatever he knew , he always looked on the black side , judged her and found her wanting . |
| 3 | The police always looked on top in an eventful first half and translated their superiority into goals just before half-time . |
| 4 | I was quite interested in flashers and their psychology , and often wished they would ‘ flash ’ me ; but they always looked at me with the utmost contempt as I stood waiting hopefully for a revelation . |
| 5 | And always looked at it as perhaps a format with great theatrical potential particularly with the kids audience in mind . |
| 6 | She always looked at every farthing twice before parting with it . |
| 7 | Henry always looked at the black side of everything . |
| 8 | Walker always looked at home until his move to Italy sapped his self-belief and left the normally swift-heeled defender looking as if he had feet of clay . |
| 9 | Do you think that in all schools the head always looked at all the reports ? |
| 10 | He always looked to her like an infant who had grown bigger and bigger and then stopped growing without changing much . |
| 11 | They had returned noisily to life after the journey , consoled by spreading the contents of their suitcases , which always looked to her like carefully collected rubbish , old dresses bought from barrows , ratty bits of fur , crumpled and disorderly history notes , about their new quarters . |
| 12 | I WAS SAD to hear that ‘ Gaffer ’ ( Walter Mimpriss ) is dead , but sadder still that his obituary ( by John MacDougall , 25 September ) did not evoke the memory of a tall , lean , gangly man , with bent shoulders , who always looked as if he should have cow-dung on his theatre wellies , writes Marion Crouchman . |
| 13 | It always looked as if old Wicksy would remain a minor TV figure until his series Heartbeat about a country plod came along . |
| 14 | In the Berlin orchestra we always looked for greater knowledge and better players but maintaining standards is always going to be difficult . |
| 15 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 16 | I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things . |
| 17 | One player , Malta 's Jon Buhagiar , was booked in a tough and often uncompromising affair in which Scotland 's impressive central defensive pairing of Stephen Wright and Kevin Bain always looked in command . |
| 18 | What with piles of ironing ( this was during my disorganised period ) , mountains of books ( I refuse to be parted from them ) , and various bric-a-brac , my flat always looked like a junkyard . |
| 19 | Selling off an organisation that has n't made a profit for 40 years always looked like being the toughest possible test of the privatisers ' skills , and recent developments are not making things any easier |
| 20 | thing , but to me it always looked like a barracks |
| 21 | It happened to lots of people in all walks of life , and always looked like a pity . |
| 22 | Apparently the miserable old queen always looked like that . |