Example sentences of "be look [adv prt] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 2 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 3 | Daily passenger figures are averaging 100 but weekends are looking up with more than double that figure each afternoon . |
| 4 | Swindon have to fight on in the promotion race … while Oxford have to battle on in the relegation scramble … but things are looking up for United … they 're off the bottom of the table for the first time since November thanks to a win at Brighton |
| 5 | This applies also to the British Council , our arm of cultural diplomacy , which is facing unprecedented demands from the newly liberated countries which are looking out for English language teachers . |
| 6 | Secondly , you are looking out for minor defects which will cost you time and money — plumbing , heating redecoration , bathroom and kitchen fittings , replacement windows , floor finishes , insulation etc . |
| 7 | The main disadvantage of this arrangement is that the cameras are looking down on those speaking from the front-benches , and , unless they take care to keep their heads up , the tops of their heads rather than their faces are exposed on the screen . |
| 8 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 9 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 10 | Things seemed to be looking up at last , ’ she says . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , Russia , and to a lesser degree Red China , must be looking on with considerable satisfaction at the indecision which is being displayed by the United States as regards her future treatment of Japan . |
| 12 | When she signed her first big contract , Marilyn reputedly said , ‘ That 's the last cock I 'll have to suck ’ , though at the same time she seemed to be looking around for greater conquests . |
| 13 | So why should we still be looking around for suitable composts ? |
| 14 | Please could you confirm this is all OK , as if it is n't I shall be looking around for other people as my financial situation gets monthly more worrying ! |
| 15 | Thinking of , for example , those summer vacation sessions you used to have with the Berlin players in Saint-Moritz in the 1960s and '70s , I am sure one day people are going to be looking back to all this as some great Golden Age that has now gone for good . |
| 16 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 17 | Before we go a word about tomorrow night 's programme when we 'll be looking back at some of the highlights from the first ten years of Central News . |
| 18 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 19 | So we were looking around for interesting stuff to push — sounds like drugs , eh ? — he-he-he ! — and someone mentions Walter Machin . |
| 20 | They were looking back in eighteen fifteen at twenty odd years of war and revolution . |
| 21 | In 1965 , in the Brezhnev era to which many old-style Communists were to look back with fond nostalgia , an Englishman observing the May Day festival on Red Square wrote : ‘ The tourists , even the Americans , are delighted : they clap , cheer , photograph , and at the end simply gasp , as if they have just seen the greatest show on earth … |
| 22 | But that is looking back to pre-war pre-Blitz days . |
| 23 | More and more money has been spent on the police , and it has n't worked , and that 's why everybody 's looking round for new initiatives , that 's why Patrick Sheehy who after all is chairman of a very successful commercial corporation , was asked by your government to put forward recommendations , that a lot of very unsuccessful police forces rejected out of hand . |
| 24 | And again that 's looking at the same time in nineteen seventy se seventy seven , seventy eight time , it 's looking back into that er er driveway , and if you can remember the sort of the Victorian or Edwardian er photograph that er I showed you before , of er virtually that er that view . |
| 25 | he must be maybe he 's looking out for more work , I admire |
| 26 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 27 | The second innovation was to look around for offshore oil facilities , island bases or production platforms on which the air force could station helicopters , equipped with missiles , sometimes improvised Maverick anti-tank models . |
| 28 | In his autobiography , Citrine himself was to look back on this second career , taken up at the age of sixty , as the happiest time of his life , when his creativity and other faculties were exercised to the full . |