Example sentences of "[adv] looked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the sectors under study here — the interface between the arms , aerospace and telecommunications industries and engineers — private as well as public sector actors long looked to the state to take the lead : for all the talk of profitability and competitivity in the international market place , procurement policies followed by the DGT with respect to public switching exchanges , or by the Ministry of Defence and the Civilian Space Administration ( CNES ( towards arms and aerospace equipment manufacturers , reinforced this dependent attitude . |
| 2 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 3 | Among the earl 's possessions there was the lordship of Spofforth , the home of the Middletons of Stokeld , who as a result naturally looked to the Percies for lordship . |
| 4 | The weather was perfect and the blue of the sea below looked like the Mediterranean , going to turquoise then white , as it hit the dramatic , spiky rocks . |
| 5 | In our model experiments , 29% of approaching females and 20% of approaching males performed a sexual display , other individuals merely looked at the model before departing . |
| 6 | I only looked for the sake of form . |
| 7 | He brought with him a bottle of his own herbal remedy for fevers and scarcely looked at the baby before worrying about his fee . |
| 8 | No I just looked at the clock that was all it was |
| 9 | I just looked at the man , I thought , I oh god I ca n't cope with this ! |
| 10 | He just looked at the cookies on the table and at the cake Mama had just frosted . |
| 11 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 12 | That 's part of the trouble , part of why he is so lonely , but she just looked at the carpet in silence , at the dark place where Luke had once spilled black coffee . |
| 13 | There 's a serious , a serious side Lord Mayor , to that greeting cos I just looked at the number of companies that are owned this shareholders scheme that they like to promote , the number of companies that 're owned by foreign nationals . |
| 14 | It 's just that , well , I was passing Mr Connon 's house and I just looked over the hedge and I saw someone . |
| 15 | I just looked in the window then went away . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I just looked in the larder and I 've only got four . |
| 17 | Despite their attempts to express opposition many of these early papers still looked to the press of Europe as models . |
| 18 | Jesus was busy , but he still looked at the crowd and saw them . |
| 19 | That endurance was not a quality that induced ready sympathy from a class that still looked on the constable as a kind of public flunkey . |
| 20 | I always looked for the sounds ; whether it was musically correct or not did n't bother me , but it had to have a certain sound to it . ’ |
| 21 | I always looked for the kitemark when I was buying things . |
| 22 | Yeah , the hands , no structure , did you notice he hardly ever looked at the magistrate , although yeah his voice projection was still good because he 's an experienced advocate , but he was talking to the table nearly the whole time . |
| 23 | ever looked in the attic of the masonic hall ? |
| 24 | Trent hardly looked at the compass . |
| 25 | The only alleviating point in the walk was the number of pretty women and girls ; so as I delight in looking at such , I very rudely looked into the eyes of those that passed . |
| 26 | When I was making my mind up about the new housing development I also looked into the possibility of putting some money into that project as well , to give me a bigger commitment in the area , which would help allay people 's fears about it all being a get-rich-quick scheme . |
| 27 | Though the firms eventually chose America 's General Dynamics ( having had their second choice , McDonnell Douglas , and their first choice , going it alone , overruled by the Japanese government ) , the group also looked at the Panavia Tornado , the Anglo-American Harrier it and the Swedish Gripen . |
| 28 | We also looked at the diversity of living arrangements which operate between couples today , even before account is taken of our ethnically diverse , multi-cultural society . |
| 29 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 30 | They also looked at the bug from her phone . |