Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour candidates looked to the record of reform . |
| 2 | Foreign investors looked at the higher yield of gilts over German government bonds without worrying about exchange risk . |
| 3 | The back rooms looked into the soil of the hill , but the front over the richly clad valley and shining estuary on each arm of which were clusters of houses that thinned to scattered dwellings dotted among trees on the promontories . |
| 4 | The German model looked to the elevation of mind being attained by the student in personal pursuit of knowledge . |
| 5 | Kenneth checked in and , conscious of several pairs of curious eyes , I posed by the fireplace trying to look haughty and English and thinking how good my sombrero and black rubber raincoat looked against the red brick . |
| 6 | The next day the Imperial Naval Staff looked at the plans once again and decided to accept Operation Z . |
| 7 | Boraston was thus directly involved in administration , and Central Office looked after the organization of recruiting meetings ; the Liberal offices dealt with literature for recruitment and Malcolm Fraser was transferred to Abingdon Street to help with the management of the press . |
| 8 | Alice watched while the White Rabbit looked at the names on his piece of paper . |
| 9 | A tired girl with brown hair above a white dress looked across the room from another booth with a question . |
| 10 | The three little piggies looked around the room . |
| 11 | TWENTY more or less innocent little faces looked at the pianist and the two teachers and chanted : ‘ Thank you Mary , thank you Brenda , thank you Michael . ’ |
| 12 | The women were often contrasted with the men and the children , the first representing the cares of the past and the present , while the husbands and little ones looked to the future , full of hope . |
| 13 | She was in Australia at the time and her then husband looked at the picture and said , ‘ Oh , he 's a poof . ’ |
| 14 | The elderly régisseur looked around the vast cellars in despair . |
| 15 | It was important that government and the European Commission looked beyond the narrow confines of the current legalistic approach and took full account of the practical consequences of this onslaught on the system which has served the Community and world trade so well for more than a century , he said . |
| 16 | The coloured boxer looked into the referee 's eyes , then watched his fingers ; he was raising them one at a time as he counted . |
| 17 | An independent consultant looked at the studies for WEN and reported flaws and a lack of objectivity in the use of raw data , statistics and language , although Procter and Gamble has refuted these allegations . |
| 18 | The problem of the slowed rate of spin of the Sun and its large mass was solved when post-war scientists looked beyond the dynamics of what would happen to purely solid bodies functioning according to Newtonian laws . |
| 19 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 20 | As it was no longer raining they had not taken shelter in any of the caves , but after a time the thin man out of sheer restlessness looked into the nearest and came out carrying a sack . |
| 21 | Its front windows looked towards the church , and its back ones over farmland to a series of gentle green hills , the furthest one crowned with a low , dark copse , like a pool of spilled ink . |
| 22 | The tall sheriff looked round the assembled faces in the crowded office and cleared his throat . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the cessation of major hostilities left the northern English border exposed to endemic raids and marauding : the northern magnates looked to the crown for help to repulse and extinguish these threats . |
| 24 | Dyble added the conversion and another big victory looked on the cards , but Basingstoke showed a good deal of spirit in the final half-hour . |
| 25 | The thin man looked at the sky . |
| 26 | A spokesman for Phillips & Drew Fund Management , one of the largest fund managers in the City , said recent movements looked like the start of a downturn . |
| 27 | Whereas once the working class might have looked to the middle classes for an example of probity and upright behaviour , now the middle classes looked to the working class as the custodians of vanishing tradition and folk culture . |
| 28 | Babylonian writers looked upon the flood as a major interruption in their country 's history . |
| 29 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 30 | A routine straight sets quarter final victory looked on the cards for Edberg but his serve began to misfire badly while unseeded Morgan 's own delivery proved too much of a handful for the world No 3 . |