Example sentences of "not look [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 2 | Hornby on the occasion rebuked Brixton for not looking properly at the CNAA 's regulations — and the College was subsequently to have its proposals approved . |
| 3 | Mary-Claude was sad to leave because , after spending much of the summer visiting her family with Sarah , she was not looking forward to an indefinite stay in Alabama , where she knew hardly anyone and where , after Beirut and Larnaca , the sheer difference in the scale of everything made her feel uneasy and exposed . |
| 4 | I was not looking forward to the packing . |
| 5 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 6 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 7 | But she was not looking forward to the trip . |
| 8 | It should be noted that this is not looking ahead in the move-by-move sense . |
| 9 | These include excessive pallor or flushing of skin ; rapid , darting eye movements ; perspiration ; tremor of hands ; rigid posture ; aggressive manner ; excessive and/or irrelevant talking , and not looking directly at the person being spoken to . |
| 10 | By definition they do not look backwards at the kinds of demographic transformations with which various societies have already coped . |
| 11 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |
| 12 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 13 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 14 | Wycliffe did not look up from the statements and for some time Sara gave no sign that she had heard ; then she said : ‘ I 've been very stupid . |
| 15 | Could we not look forward to an era where our syllabuses for instruction in schools were as carefully drafted , as well produced and as widely read and discussed as our development plans for education ? |
| 16 | If MPs do not look forward to an annual visit to Babel by the Sea , the Party 's rank and file spend twelve months ticking off the days in happy anticipation . |
| 17 | Olivia did not look forward to the interview . |
| 18 | In future , ministers need not look far for a way to bridge working relationships between central and local government . |
| 19 | We shall take it , as anticipated earlier ( p. 16 ) , and in some agreement with these views , that all causes and effects are physical events , but we need not look further into the views . |
| 20 | The hon. Gentleman need not look only to the health authority chief executive ; he can ask the patients . |
| 21 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |
| 22 | Sophia , who had not made this flight before , was disappointed that it did not look more like the Italian landscape she remembered from the ground . |
| 23 | These Koi may not look much at the time you part with your cash , but then , certain varieties never show their full potential until they are mature . |
| 24 | He did not look much like the leader of anything , for he was fast asleep ; very tiny , with a shock of glossy black hair , and a wrinkled red face . |
| 25 | However , the particles that emerged would not look much like the astronaut . |
| 26 | Cornwall was no centre of radicalism , so one would not look there for a pattern of oscillation , but a detailed study of the Great Yorkshire Revival of 1792 – 6 has led its author to the conclusion that Thompson 's speculative idea gains some support from the experience of the North . |
| 27 | It is a complacent researcher indeed who does not look back on the research findings and wish that some things had been done better . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State has said several times today how proud he is of British Rail 's safety record — a pride which we all share — but that is surely no reason not to look again at the real doubts that have arisen in the past year about manning , the number of hours worked and the quality of some of the new systems of signalling that are being installed . |
| 29 | And yet the impact on us is considerable , and I 'm seriously wondering whether the major spending committees ought not to look again at the budgets that they 're erm , and I 've discussed this with , and obviously education is the big problem , but er , I 'm not convinced that erm , the sums of money which we 're being asked to pay out , not be taken from the education budget without too dra drastic an effect on the school . |
| 30 | They were moderns , they must keep faith with their generation and not look back towards the old one . |