Example sentences of "look [adv] [conj] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allusion to nature was never completely abandoned in his abstractions and his pioneering works in collage influenced a couple of generations of American artists ( Joseph Cornell , for instance , must have looked long and hard at some of his glass-fronted box constructions ) . |
| 2 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 3 | Adam sat motionless in one of the corners — looking less and less like a real person , Ruth noted ; he never spoke now , or appeared to hear if anyone addressed him . |
| 4 | It was looking more and more as if the source might be Nazi Intelligence . |
| 5 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 6 | IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job . |
| 7 | Sussex , some long-haired , denim-clad veteran of the sixties complained , was looking more and more like a housing estate for first-time buyers . |
| 8 | Whether he becomes King or not is looking more and more like an academic question . |
| 9 | The whole bunch were looking more and more like liabilities . |
| 10 | The council tax is looking more and more like a repeat of the ghastly poll tax . ’ |
| 11 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion that it is Parliament , not the law , which is in danger of looking more and more like an ass . |
| 12 | Even if they stretch as far as I can see , ’ she added , looking up and then down the river . |
| 13 | The scientist shuffled uneasily , looking back and forth from Cardiff to Rohmer . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , we still got ‘ im , ’ said the Old Stager contemptuously , indicating the Smallholder , our other opener still in the middle , who stood looking modestly and determinedly at the bottom of his raised bat , as if to say : ‘ Now it all depends on me . ’ |
| 15 | With respect to the lack of co-operation , there is of course a tendency ( not uncommon elsewhere ) for librarians in different sectors to develop groups and associations to consider the problems and work within their individual sectors , without looking backward and forward to other levels of education . |
| 16 | He was looking about apprehensively ; looking anywhere but directly at them . |
| 17 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 18 | He thrust his face aggressively towards Father Devlin , who sat looking quietly and steadfastly at him , his hands joined over his paunch . |
| 19 | This self-obsession , the looking inwards and away from the real world , represents a full circle turned in approximately twenty years , and this time it has official sanction and encouragement . |
| 20 | To look openly and plainly on anything or anyone would , in her mind , leave her exposed . |
| 21 | The pupils who come to Learning Support are encouraged to look openly and realistically at their problems and to use departmental resources , staff , accommodation and equipment to help them resolve these problems . |
| 22 | As a teacher Blamey is gratefully remembered by many of his students Jacqueline Rizivi remembers him as one of the most effective teachers at Chelsea ‘ He taught a ‘ state of mind ’ , an honesty , a need to look clearly and precisely at any object or figure . |
| 23 | During our journey we had been taken to Sherwood Forest , where we had a short while to look around and similarly at Chatsworth house . |
| 24 | Moving off , before moving off always use your mirrors , but look round as well for a final check , signal as necessary before moving out , move off only when you can do so safely without making the road user change speed or direction right |
| 25 | The Government would be well advised to look constructively and positively at the suggestion that there should be an ombudsman . |
| 26 | Once lodged in the realm of ‘ common sense ’ and sustained by ‘ practical ’ measures , state collectivism looked less and less like contestable belief , and became increasingly the broad starting point for argument , rather than its disputed conclusion . |
| 27 | She looked swiftly and expressionlessly at Antoinette , who glared back at her . |
| 28 | I was crying quietly , while Mr Rochester looked gently and seriously at me . |
| 29 | He looked outside and there at the bottom of the steps was Aubrey Clark dressed in his motor-cycle gear , his helmet glinting in the moonlight . |
| 30 | They looked squarely and intently at each other for a full minute , as blankly as strangers , trying each other for traces of concession or agreement or affection , even . |