Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] the [noun] " 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 | To the west , Chioggia looks inward across the lagoon and Sottomarina looks out to the Adriatic sea . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This species looks rather like the heart urchin but the petal-like areas are much more deeply sunken , the forward pair very short . |
| 7 | The way was now open for peace negotiations with France , and these negotiations inevitably looked rather like the negotiations which had ended the wars against Louis XIV in 1713 — sensible enough at a time of high expenditure but not fair to allies nor likely to allow the British negotiators to gain the largest possible amount at the bargaining table . |
| 8 | He then looks grimly into the coffee cup . |
| 9 | Liz Clifton the gallery organiser says the work is very skilled and they 've looked all over the country to find things . |
| 10 | The children looked all along the bank to see if they could find a boat . |
| 11 | It looks only at the side of business interests who think only of trade liberalization . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They had looked together in the sheds , behind the dustbins . |
| 14 | The road before looked much like the road behind . |
| 15 | ‘ The town where I was born looked much like the outskirts of this city . |
| 16 | [ … ] When one looks merely at the situation after the resource has been monopolized by the entrepreneurial skill of the producer , one sees only a monopolist producer — exempt from competition to the extent his resource monopoly permits . |
| 17 | At this moment , he looks much like the Ali we remember . |
| 18 | Having looked gloomily into the windows of antique shops , and steered his way past lines of tipsy Tories , he returned to the Grand where a functionary manning the door noticed that he was not wearing a photo-pass . |
| 19 | He looks just like the King ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , it looks just like the animal , ’ the computer said . |
| 21 | In fact he looks exactly like the Dudley Moore that John Osborne called the most overweening man in the world . |
| 22 | It should be remembered that the modern movement was responsible for great moral and social improvements when one looks sentimentally at the past . |
| 23 | Out-and-out stayer Belmount Captain , unsuited by the slow early gallop at Ascot last time , looks best of the remainder . |
| 24 | Miss Timber Topper looks best in the opener and after Richards has had another winner with Pyjamas in the St. Boswell 's Handicap Chase I expect Stephenson 's Jupiter 's Glory to complete a great day for punters . |
| 25 | At Folkestone , Allen 's Rock looks best in the opener , while John Edwards would not be sending Western Legend all the way from Hereford without a chance . |
| 26 | Selkirk looks best in the Beefeater Gin Celebration Mile where the stiffest test is likely to come from French challenger Steinbeck , who loves the mud . |
| 27 | Once one looks away from the north , Gloucester 's connection appears to fragment . |
| 28 | Once one looks away from the north , Gloucester 's connection appears to fragment . |
| 29 | There 's a moment when he looks away from the camera and down at the floor and softly says , ‘ Nobody 's young any more … |
| 30 | He looks longingly at the teapot and the tiny red cups . |