Example sentences of "[adj] to look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 2 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 3 | One of those walks stretches alongside the estuary , and at one point it is possible to look back to the solidity and placidity of the harbour and out , across Doom Bar , to an unpredictable sea . |
| 4 | It would be rude to look out of the car windows |
| 5 | She could have hired a team of professionals to do the work , of course , but she 'd wanted to be able to look round at the end of it all and know she 'd done it . |
| 6 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |
| 7 | Then he sat for a while on the aisle stand which was a box covering the auto-pilot , where he was able to look out through the nose . |
| 8 | I want to be able to look out of the window and see other people . |
| 9 | But soon it might be depressing to look down from the Topping . |
| 10 | Hazel , like nearly all wild animals , was unaccustomed to look up at the sky . |
| 11 | But to get the subject as a whole into perspective , it is necessary to look back to the past … |
| 12 | Realising the vindictive nature of this man , and knowing how he had conditioned her husband since he was a child , Beth felt obliged to look out for the interests of those she loved . |
| 13 | It may have been seven years late and a billion dollars over budget , but the Hubble space telescope was lifting out of the shuttle cargo bay and on its way to orbit at last , ready to look back across the universe to the very beginnings of time . |