Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On close inspection it looks more like the second touring production of Absurd Person Singular after a long spell in Pitlochry . |
| 2 | Today , the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world 's longest and more bitter conflicts . |
| 3 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 4 | Training in the choir gave me a fine knowledge of the Psalms , though I must say that none of us choir boys looked forward to the fifteenth evening of the month when the set psalm had no less than seventy-three verses . |
| 5 | The Gardon was so full of silt ( plus the occasional dead sheep or cow ) that looking down from the third floor of the Pont du Gard it looked more like a flow of molasses than a river . |
| 6 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 7 | Looking back to the seventeenth century , or forward to the late twentieth century . |
| 8 | Writing this from the standpoint of the narrator ( Arthur ) looking back to the sixteenth ( and last ) year of Philip , the youngest child of the Morgan household , we are told that Arthur kept a diary of that year — as indeed Edward had kept such a diary and later printed it in The Woodland Life . |
| 9 | Looking back over the first decade of his regime , in a radio broadcast made to mark the tenth anniversary of the end of the Civil War , Franco crowed , |
| 10 | Looking back over the last two years , portraits and townscapes , in Berlin or in other locations , predominate . |
| 11 | Looking back over the last 19 years he said : ‘ Having had the opportunity to set up and develop the education service in Lothian has been enormously challenging and satisfying and I believe it is an education service of good quality with many forward-looking policies now established . |
| 12 | I believe that the whole country thinks that with the uncertainties in the world — in the middle east and elsewhere , as well as in the Soviet Union — and looking ahead to the next 10 years , it is essential that we maintain our minimum credible nuclear deterrent . |
| 13 | Now we are all looking forward to the second leg . |
| 14 | All of the practices were looking forward to the second year in which the ‘ steady state ’ of year 1 would give way to even greater freedom and opportunity . |
| 15 | When I left you last month I was looking forward to the second round of the Macpherson Paints UK Championships to be fished at Diglis Weir on the River Severn . |
| 16 | Australian team manager Bobby Simpson said his bowlers were looking forward to the second day , when similar overcast conditions were forecast . |
| 17 | I SUPPOSE a lot of people are waiting to greet the first cuckoo of spring , but I was looking forward to the first hedgehog of spring . |
| 18 | But I am looking forward to the first leg . |
| 19 | He continued : ‘ I am looking forward to the next Labour government throwing out the Tory anti-union laws and giving working people the protection that they need to conduct legitimate industrial action . |
| 20 | He had the good lecturer 's habit of referring back to the previous lecture , and looking forward to the next , so that the course flowed smoothly on . |
| 21 | We 're looking forward to the next issue , reminding us of home . |
| 22 | Some may be looking forward to the next life , others begin to take a pride in having reached advanced years , even in outliving others . |
| 23 | After Richard reminded me of the problems I was about to face following that first flight , I was n't looking forward to the next flying lesson . |
| 24 | an effective means of looking forward to the next appropriate teaching steps . |
| 25 | It was so bad , I 'd be looking forward to the next meal before I 'd finished the last one , ’ she says . |
| 26 | the end of the day saw children and parents — tired but happy — set off for home , already looking forward to the next party . |
| 27 | We 're dealing with the day to day running of the theatre ; shows coming in , maintenance , but also looking forward to the next productions . |
| 28 | As one motor racing season comes to an end , a Banbury engineering company are looking forward to the next . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm sick last season has ended , but I 'm looking forward to the next one more than I have any season . |
| 30 | I am looking forward to the next stage of Tencel and we are already working with Fibers and Research to set up the teams for a new project . |