Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a friendly atmosphere look around at leisure and allow our experienced designers to give you advice and original ideas . |
| 2 | A tall Egyptian looked over , saw Paul and waved his hand . |
| 3 | I drive many buses as well as cars and I find I 'm very aggressive in cars , but when I 'm sitting high up in the seat of a mini bus looking down on every one your not so aggressive , you feel well I 've got the right of way , nobody 's going to argue with me . |
| 4 | They sometimes have unusual parenting styles and some , though by no means all , find that having a social worker looking over their shoulder makes them feel uncomfortable and unnecessarily unsure of themselves . |
| 5 | The two boys dressed , with a social worker looking on . |
| 6 | She put away the car , quietly locked the garage door and stood for a few moments looking out over the valley . |
| 7 | A few Masai look on . |
| 8 | As we prepare for the future , we thought we 'd take a few minutes to look back — at the first ten years of Central News . |
| 9 | It is definitely worth flying to Prague and taking a few days to look around before you travel across the country to Slovakia . |
| 10 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |
| 11 | On the other hand , a shot taken from a high angle to look down on the subject diminishes it and suggests a feeling of superiority . |
| 12 | He dwells in a high tower looking down on the metropolis and can often be seen flying high above it on his War Griffon Stormwing . |
| 13 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 14 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 15 | The path leads down and around to a brick-paved seating area situated beneath a climber-covered arbour looking back towards the house . |
| 16 | The kitchen opened into a very pleasant sitting-room , which had a door leading to a little dairy on the right and then to the stairs which had a half landing with a tiny window looking out at the back . |
| 17 | The kitchen was bigger than he had supposed ; it had a stone floor with a large square of matting , an open grate and a tiny window looking out on the rising ground of the headland . |
| 18 | When the Stockton and Darlington Railway first rolled through the countryside in the 1820s , there really was n't very much in the Middleton area for a bored passenger to look out at from a window . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It stands on a small hill , higher than the other villas , with a private approach road and a large balcony looking out to sea . |
| 21 | Wycliffe was received in the lounge , which had a large picture-window looking out to sea . |
| 22 | In the case of the ‘ ordinary ’ person it may just be pleasant to record what has happened each day so that one can at some time in the future spend a nostalgic hour looking back on times past . |
| 23 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 24 | It opens and a young man with a bald head looks up , too startled to speak , from a desk draped in yards of printout . |
| 25 | The moonlight shone into my bedroom , as it did then , and I saw a vision on the ceiling , a white figure looking down on me . |
| 26 | The curtains were rucked up , leaving a little triangle to look through . |
| 27 | It 's always a great temptation to look around , see what other people are doing or what they have got and want to be like them . |
| 28 | She walked one last time down the rickety boardwalk in front of the cabins , and stood for a long time looking down at the sleeping lodge , the moody lake beyond it . |
| 29 | Masklin made a mental note to look out for any pictures in the air . |
| 30 | Just off the main road on the right is a good viewpoint to look down on both the north and south sides of the island . |