Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To turn three pages of essay into 77 pages of story looks suspiciously like the kind of redundant ornamentation that Steiner suggests is at the heart of what is wrong with Western values . |
| 2 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 3 | Not quite , but this looks suspiciously like the death throes . |
| 4 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 5 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |
| 6 | Yet , long before we clashed , the Bugis had possessed a highly complex written language , in which every letter looks rather like the cross-section of a different but closely related spiral seashell . |
| 7 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 8 | He then looks grimly into the coffee cup . |
| 9 | In an important sense , Hugh may almost be looked on as the instigator of the Investiture decree of 1078 , for he had gone to Rome for his episcopal consecration four years earlier in order to avoid contact with a secular ruler , who claimed the right both to nominate and to invest his nominee in his episcopal office . |
| 10 | TEACHERS of young children are being looked on by the Government as ‘ not a lot more than well-disciplined child-minders , ’ a senior Belfast education adviser claimed today . |
| 11 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 12 | The children looked all along the bank to see if they could find a boat . |
| 13 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 14 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 15 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 16 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 17 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 18 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 19 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 20 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 21 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 22 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 23 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 24 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 25 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 26 | It has been said that the surety 's obligation is simply that of paying money and , of course , in a sense that is true if one looks only at the remedy which the landlord has against him in the event of default by the tenant . |
| 27 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 28 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 29 | His dad had n't much luck dying in his fifties and the boy had looked in with the bread and milk most days since her accident . |
| 30 | The road before looked much like the road behind . |