Example sentences of "look [adv prt] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 2 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 3 | In fact , my dear , we 've looked out the old bath chair . |
| 4 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 5 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 6 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 7 | Thorfinn , looking down the short length of the table to his wife 's cousin opposite , said , ‘ I heard about your wife . |
| 8 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 9 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 10 | ‘ Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman … ‘ on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror . |
| 11 | ‘ But , like it or not , we were there and involved in it , and looking back the amazing thing for me is I 'm sitting here , breathing , after all that . |
| 12 | that 's looking out the front window |
| 13 | Well I was looking out the other side cos I was trying to work out where Glynis lived . |
| 14 | When satisfied , look along the whole length and ensure that the wood grain does not run off the true length . |
| 15 | Stand some four yards or so behind the ball , look down the ball-to-target line and try to see the ideal shot in your mind . |
| 16 | The other two windows look over the thatched roof of the kitchen hut to a stand of eucalyptus trees , the waters of the lake and the mainland peninsula of Capachica . |
| 17 | Er it is not asking the panel to n you know to draft a rite that would used and I , I would interpret this to mean that it 's asking the panel to look up the theological propriety if you like of such a rite and bring forward suggestions which would then be passed for implementation , if so decided , to the panel on worship . |
| 18 | Well marketing could be sorts of things , it could be doing exhibitions which you 've talked about , it could be erm , mail shots , it could be looking , going down the library to do , to look up the electoral role , to look up the names of people . |
| 19 | do I have to look out the old greatcoat , woolly hat , scarf and gloves of my hippy days ? |
| 20 | I look round the old place ; the window surrounds have been painted , the flower-beds look a bit unkempt . |
| 21 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 22 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 23 | The question presented itself at yesterday 's Foyle 's lunch in Mayfair , when the distinguished scientist Sir Rudolf Peierls took an early siesta during an interesting speech by Lord Zuckerman , whose new book we were celebrating , and who at that very moment looked down the top table and described Peierls , rightly , as ‘ one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists ever ’ . |
| 24 | He lifted one knee from the ground and turned his head slowly and looked up the slight incline to the path , and in his sun-blinded vision he saw a shape . |
| 25 | You looked up the late opening times of the local pool but never got round to going . |
| 26 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 27 | They looked up the spiral stair . |
| 28 | I worked right through it and then looked up the proper translation , which was at the end of the book . |
| 29 | I looked up the original advertisement . |
| 30 | The curtains were drawn back as far as they would go , and whenever she looked up the green-brown panorama confronted her and the pale bowl of sky . |