Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] looked [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour candidates looked to the record of reform . |
| 2 | The back rooms looked into the soil of the hill , but the front over the richly clad valley and shining estuary on each arm of which were clusters of houses that thinned to scattered dwellings dotted among trees on the promontories . |
| 3 | The German model looked to the elevation of mind being attained by the student in personal pursuit of knowledge . |
| 4 | Boraston was thus directly involved in administration , and Central Office looked after the organization of recruiting meetings ; the Liberal offices dealt with literature for recruitment and Malcolm Fraser was transferred to Abingdon Street to help with the management of the press . |
| 5 | A tired girl with brown hair above a white dress looked across the room from another booth with a question . |
| 6 | The three little piggies looked around the room . |
| 7 | TWENTY more or less innocent little faces looked at the pianist and the two teachers and chanted : ‘ Thank you Mary , thank you Brenda , thank you Michael . ’ |
| 8 | The women were often contrasted with the men and the children , the first representing the cares of the past and the present , while the husbands and little ones looked to the future , full of hope . |
| 9 | She was in Australia at the time and her then husband looked at the picture and said , ‘ Oh , he 's a poof . ’ |
| 10 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 11 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 12 | Its front windows looked towards the church , and its back ones over farmland to a series of gentle green hills , the furthest one crowned with a low , dark copse , like a pool of spilled ink . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the cessation of major hostilities left the northern English border exposed to endemic raids and marauding : the northern magnates looked to the crown for help to repulse and extinguish these threats . |
| 14 | The thin man looked at the sky . |
| 15 | A spokesman for Phillips & Drew Fund Management , one of the largest fund managers in the City , said recent movements looked like the start of a downturn . |
| 16 | Babylonian writers looked upon the flood as a major interruption in their country 's history . |
| 17 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 18 | The deep-sand colour of the plasterwork , the dark-red tiled roofs with the little balconies and shuttered windows looked like the kind of house one might be content to live in . |
| 19 | I was also misled by work I had done on a simple model of the universe in which the collapsing phase looked like the time reverse of the expanding phase . |