Example sentences of "look [adv] at 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 | This study looks only at the latter two groups . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If the baby looks more at the new patterns , it indicates that he/she can discriminate them from the original . |
| 6 | But even so Elizabeth should have known what she was walking into , should have looked closely at the encircling fields , the rock-built house and Hywel all muddy and iced and quiet from winter toil . |
| 7 | We have only really looked closely at the local analysis of one particular kind of homoclinic orbit ( in section 6.4 ) ; such local analyses are interesting in their own right , but are relatively well known { 37 } . |
| 8 | The Commission has also looked closely at the potential anticompetitive effects of vertical integration . |
| 9 | Few studies have looked specifically at the elderly . |
| 10 | The typhoon shelters at Aberdeen and Mong Kok start to fill with craft , their prudent masters and owners looking uneasily at the eastern sky as it blackens and darkens , and as the wind begins to sing in the telephone wires , the unsecured edges of roofs begin to flap and creak , and the streets are busy with flying litter , and dust . |
| 11 | ‘ There is no dance house in London which is big enough for what we want to do , ’ she said , looking admiringly at the spacious stage area being laid out to the rear of the former Empire Theatre . |
| 12 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 13 | The role of the non-executive : Of course , not all of a non-executive 's time is spent looking outwards at the wider world . |
| 14 | The important point to note as a summary here , is that the algorithms suggested for solving 30 out of 36 errors , would find the correct ( i.e. intended ) word by looking only at the top ranked candidate string , which neatly solves the problem described earlier of what to choose as a starting point for possible error correction , and avoids the potentially explosive situations . |
| 15 | Emily turned and walked up the wide staircase , looking painfully at the bare walls where paintings of her ancestors had hung for generations . |
| 16 | I 'm looking outside at the lovely trees changing the colour . |
| 17 | He lay in bed , looking calmly at the white ceiling . |
| 18 | Instead of looking carefully at the specific conditions in which particular women live , we are frequently tempted to appeal to some common denominator of female experience ( domesticity and motherhood are the commonest choices ) that is false to the facts of many women 's experience and — to the degree that we wish to eliminate such common denominators — politically counterproductive as well . |
| 19 | Papers are not necessarily priced according to their surfaces , Rough , Not or HP and it is worth looking carefully at the various makes and their qualities , as two papers may have similar characteristics but be quite different in price . |
| 20 | Reaching the shed , I stepped over several mounds of brick and other rubble and went inside , looking carefully at the wet streaked brick walls searching for anything that could be identifiable with the depot . |
| 21 | But auditors will be looking carefully at the precise wording of the legislation and of the related guidance . |
| 22 | Looking intermittently at the so-called colonial art of Latin America in churches , museums , private collections and books , I became magnetised by the figures of angels . |
| 23 | The board flickered for a second or two , then slowly faded until it was gone , and Quiss was left sitting looking angrily at the small wooden table . |
| 24 | ‘ Was it terrible ? ’ he asked , looking questioningly at the empty chair , as if asking their permission to sit down . |
| 25 | Looking now at the actual differences in digestion between the different predator species , they can be divided into a number of categories as was done for the molars . |
| 26 | ‘ That will put your mother to a great deal of expense , ’ said Lessing , looking severely at the young man over his spectacles . |
| 27 | But looking purely at the outside bit , If they 'd have had some whitewash on I think they 'd have looked better . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , well , I do n't know why anybody should have planted trees just here , ’ said Chris Growcott , looking disparagingly at the weedy wood nearby . |
| 29 | She nodded then turned away , looking across at the ancient pomegranate trees , flicking her fan open as she did so . |
| 30 | Meg sat facing him , looking across at the eastern shore . |