Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yeah , we 'll take you up on that , Dave , ’ Graham said then suddenly looked despairingly at the sealed container . |
| 2 | ‘ Hello stranger , ’ Cormack had said aggressively , and Amanda had looked nervously at the two men . |
| 3 | In what looks rather like the thin end of the wedge for eventual privatisation of the phone company , BellSouth Corp yesterday said it had reached agreement to buy a 12.5% stake in France Telecom Mobiles Data SA , a newly formed unit of France Telecom . |
| 4 | Their Victorian furniture , which had never looked right in the pre-war semi , was very much at home in their new house — they just needed more of it . |
| 5 | In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion . |
| 6 | In this process in which the psychiatrist ( or psychoanalyst ) looks outwards from the individual psyche into his patient 's social network , he inevitably moves into territory which the social anthropologist ( and in Europe the sociologist ) regards as his — hence , of course , the boundary disputes alluded to above . |
| 7 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 8 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 9 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 10 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 11 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 12 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 13 | If one looks only at the outer signs , one may see a cantankerous , dotty old person , but in the soul something very different may be perceived . |
| 14 | 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE THE REAL THING |
| 15 | The model , of course , looks just like the young Audrey Hepburn . |
| 16 | It looks exactly like the existing version but has a wider magnetic tape . |
| 17 | Morse had looked quickly round the flat but had found nothing much to engage his interest . |
| 18 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 19 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 20 | for example : the swift change from the grand développé à la seconde which Odile makes facing the audience and her sudden turn to arabesque when she looks straight into the kneeling Siegfried 's eyes in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake ; it is Odile 's triumph for she knows she has won Siegfried 's heart . |
| 21 | With its grey plumage , barred underside and hawk-like shape and silhouette , the European cuckoo looks deceptively like the predatory sparrowhawk — the two are often confused . |
| 22 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 23 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 24 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 25 | Addresses do n't have to be mentioned , they can easily be looked up in the electoral roll just from a name . |
| 26 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 27 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 28 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 29 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 30 | Greg Grant looks back to the Victorian adventurers who conquered nature to put a communication girdle around the world . |