Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 2 | In spite of her misadventure , Diana looks back on that trip to Val Claret as one of the most enjoyable and carefree holidays of her life . |
| 3 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 4 | Twenty-four hours since she had last looked out on that scene , watched the same blue curtains stir in the draught through the ill-fitting window-frame . |
| 5 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 6 | He stood looking down for some time . |
| 7 | I presume it 's seen from the wards that 're behind looking down into this courtyard . |
| 8 | I presume it 's seen from the wards that are up behind looking down onto this courtyard . |
| 9 | We 're looking down here , obviously standing on a hill because here we 've got some plants which are on the hillside and there 's a river here so we 're on sort of a fairly steep slope , I would imagine , down to the river , looking over across these vineyards . |
| 10 | ‘ I stood beside the drill and kept looking up at this line we had just made ; and it was like a gun-barrel . |
| 11 | I can see part of Horse Guards Parade almost see myself standing there the other afternoon , looking up at these windows , still ignorant of what I was looking at . |
| 12 | So , it 's no good er me looking up in some book Theresa 's dreams if I could decipher it like some kind of code in which every single thing in the laten in the manifest content represented something latent for what we 're trying to then kind of decode as in a code book because er that 's not valid , at least it 's not valid in general terms . |
| 13 | Grahame begins the prologue of The Golden Age with the wistful phrase , ‘ Looking back to those days of old , ere the gate shut behind me … |
| 14 | He said the alternative view was to take the standpoint of a fully-developed person looking back to some point marking the moment of creation . |
| 15 | Looking back to this era there is no doubt that our small fleet was pitifully Inadequate to control the long stretches of coastline but we did our best within the limits imposed by man power and patrol time . |
| 16 | But she thought , looking back at that pewter sky and narrow saffron afterglow as the Aston Martin purred into life and shot away at speed : Yes , individuals do ! |
| 17 | Looking back at that period , the crucial difference in Conservative politicians was between those who thought that the last twenty or thirty years had not been too bad , and who were sceptical that anything better could be achieved , and those who hoped that something better could be won and saw the last quarter of a century as a slow but steady decline . |
| 18 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 19 | I 'm sure our successors will be looking back at those acquisitions as good ones ! |
| 20 | Looking back at this time , Nigel was surprisingly patient , but he was worried that , if he did n't improve , he 'd be unable to help with the move as almost any movement of his right arm increased his suffering . |
| 21 | Looking back at this morning — any early mist patches soon cleared and although it was a dry staert everywhere , it has remained cloudy . |
| 22 | About twelve years later , when I was looking back on that meeting with Dana , I wrote the following poem : |
| 23 | Looking back on that moment now , she felt it tremble before her , round and perfect as an overfull drip , and she caught her breath at the thought of its transitoriness , its shimmering beauty , and suddenly whispered to herself , ‘ I am happy , ’ as if she feared it might not last forever . |
| 24 | Looking back on that moment , it had often occurred to Shiona that it had marked the path that their future relationship was to take . |
| 25 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |
| 26 | Looking back on that period , Mr Li lamented , ‘ Some sectors of the economy were so decentralised that the state 's ability to exercise macro-control was weakened . ’ |
| 27 | Looking back on that episode , I often wonder . |
| 28 | Now Gloucester rugby fans wo n't be looking back on this season for any misty eyed memories … |
| 29 | Looking back on these campaigns at the end of her life , she defined the law as the chief agency for enacting God 's work and for abolishing the double-standard , which menaced the young and ultimately contributed to the disintegration of the state . |
| 30 | Looking back on these years , he remembered lying in the sun , his face covered with a straw hat : ‘ Other boys were always talking of when they would be men ; he did not want at all to be a man , or to possess things , but to remain as he was , in the same spot , and to know no more people than he already knew . ’ |