Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 2 | But it 's strange to think that the day 's not so far away when players like Robert Cray , Bonnie Raitt and Jimmie Vaughan , for so long representatives of the new American blues generation , will themselves be looked on as the elders of the blues . |
| 3 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 4 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 5 | ‘ The town where I was born looked much like the outskirts of this city . |
| 6 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 7 | Two of us in a great mass of strangers , and various things to do that you 've got to get right , like follow signs and collect your luggage ; then you get looked over by the customs , and no-one particularly cares who you are or what you 're doing there so the two of you have to keep one another cheerful … |
| 8 | Guruji looks inquiringly at the companions . |
| 9 | ‘ Looks more like the communications centre of a nuclear sub . ’ |
| 10 | In such a case , as Lord Haldane said in North Western Salt Co Ltd v Electrolytic Alkali Co Ltd [ 1914 ] AC 461 , the law " still looks carefully to the interests of the public , but it regards the parties as the best judges of what is reasonable as between themselves " . |
| 11 | I thought that because I had looked up to the twins on account of their wealth I expected others to do the same to me . |
| 12 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 13 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 14 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 15 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 16 | Perhaps they 'd never looked out of the windows . |
| 17 | It 's official designation is an eyecatcher ; the idea was you looked out of the windows of the house and that your eye was drawn to the temple at the end of the lakes . |
| 18 | He stands and looks out over the lights of London . |
| 19 | Willie had looked around for the twins and George , but they were nowhere to be seen . |
| 20 | So far , we have looked briefly at the basics which are common to all camcorders , that is formats , body-shapes , and viewfinder arrangements . |
| 21 | And then he looks forward to the weekends and that . |
| 22 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 23 | Anyone who inspects the cobbles closely will find , if he makes a successful Int test ( Physician or Physician 's Student +10 ) that the greasiness is due to many small gobbets of what looks very like the remains of human fat . |
| 24 | While other poets busily peer about them , acknowledging the given world , Porter looks inwards at the figures described by his imagination . |
| 25 | But the interior is remarkable : a single aisle with a high barrel vault of painted wooden panelling looking rather like the timbers of an inverted ship 's hull . |
| 26 | The little scene concluded , she walked aft , looking inward through the windows , searching for someone , who in fact turned out to be me . |
| 27 | I felt that I was looking right into the worms of pain in his skull , but they turned into slugs trying to eat their own tails . |
| 28 | High , curved , hand-carved doors led from the reception area to the conference room and residents ' sitting-room , where afternoon tea would be served looking down across the gardens to the accompaniment of a grand piano . |
| 29 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 30 | But looking down at the words now , it did not appear so simple . |