Example sentences of "looked [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodcock noticed that all the young men looked rather the same , ‘ like corrupt cherubs ’ . |
| 2 | The Guynemers could trace courageous ancestors back to Charlemagne , but few heroes looked less the part than Georges , with his almost effeminate beauty and frail , spindly body that was three times rejected as unfit for military service . |
| 3 | He looked much the same as he did later , with a T-shirt and his 5000 volt haircut . |
| 4 | However , by 1984 a stream of continental ecologists were visiting FoE 's headquarters and appearing at conferences to remark that , so far as they were concerned , the trees looked much the same in Britain as they did in West Germany . |
| 5 | She looked much the same herself . |
| 6 | The nurses looked much the same , although , of course hair styles had changed dramatically . |
| 7 | On this day , her mother always took an interest in the weather and the direction of the wind , and almost every year would look out at the white-capped waves and mutter about how the wind and sea looked much the same as it had on the day she lost her Sam . |
| 8 | The street looked much the same — a cul-de-sac , with a brick wall at the far end , closing the road ; and above the wall , towering above the slate-roofed houses , a ship rode at anchor in the Jubilee Dock , its masts and funnels silhouetted against the sky . |
| 9 | It did n't seem that any more work had been done on it , but it still looked much the same . |
| 10 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 11 | ‘ Ah , ’ Karl shook his head as he looked down the avenue . |
| 12 | The question presented itself at yesterday 's Foyle 's lunch in Mayfair , when the distinguished scientist Sir Rudolf Peierls took an early siesta during an interesting speech by Lord Zuckerman , whose new book we were celebrating , and who at that very moment looked down the top table and described Peierls , rightly , as ‘ one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists ever ’ . |
| 13 | Would you mind if I looked down the list ? |
| 14 | Henry looked down the table now and grinned at his mother as he said , ‘ Yes , Mama . ’ |
| 15 | She looked down the table to Captain Meredith facing her . |
| 16 | Annie looked down the table to where her son George sat next to his wife . |
| 17 | Standing on the brake-van verandah , he looked down the line towards the signal box . |
| 18 | He took off his pince-nez , perched them higher up his nose , looked down the table . |
| 19 | He went to his window , and looked down the five storeys into the courtyard . |
| 20 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 21 | He looked down the table and held up his plate , as did the ‘ broth ’ . |
| 22 | Ellie looked down the table at her father , expecting an intervention . |
| 23 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 24 | Hazel turned his head and looked down the course of the brook . |
| 25 | When , finally , the tremors stopped , she looked down the bed at his smiling shiny face . |
| 26 | Hope looked down the fell where Colonel and Mrs Moore were strolling with unskilful aimlessness , taking care never to look up towards the two figures on the rump of mountain . |
| 27 | Ruth looked down the menu and was scandalised . |
| 28 | She looked down the list . |
| 29 | Fowler took it , opened the breech and looked down the twin barrels . |
| 30 | Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered . |