Example sentences of "[vb mod] look [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | But while the breaking of convention may be agreeable , and therefore laughable ( cf. certain views of Freud , below ) , there is never any questioning of what is " right " and what is " wrong " : for that sort of conundrum one should look rather to a romance like Marie de France 's lay Eliduc . |
| 2 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 3 | I was very tired but I knew that I must look out for a trap . |
| 4 | Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings . |
| 5 | Then I 'll look up with a smile , and breathe freely . |
| 6 | I 'll look forward to a working party to be set up to address this situation . |
| 7 | If a noble was excluded from favour at court , his dependants might look elsewhere for a patron , and the noble 's following would thus be weakened . |
| 8 | Six Finger Satellite might look unpleasantly like a '90s misappropriation of Devo , but in the dressed-down flesh they are a groovesome hardcore update of Wire with a head honcho given to lurching about like an adolescent , erm , Lurch . |
| 9 | It was no argument , he said , that the two offices must harmonize , as only one of the four elevations of the building would be seen with the Foreign Office , and with ‘ that exception the buildings should differ , because a picturesque style which might look well from a Park would look fantastic from a Street ’ . |
| 10 | The third segment might look very like a and be assigned a high score on the basis of its acoustic-phonetic features . |
| 11 | It 's not necessary to keep *me* happy — everyone is free to say what they like — my only concern is that if a complaint about serious abuse ( or whatever ) went in , those with their finger on the button might look dimly on a footie fan list . |
| 12 | A coffin-maker could look up to a funeral furnisher rather than to an undertaker ; an undertaker might have respected the funeral furnisher in as much as he could afford to buy in his coffins ; whereas the funeral furnisher , whilst relying on the coffin-maker , looked down on the undertaker ( Col. 2 ) . |
| 13 | Whichever happened , it was clear that the citizens of Somerset could look forward to a radioactive legacy on their coastline for more than many of their lifetimes . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the table opposite will give you some idea of what to expect : for example , a man aged 30 investing just £25 a month could look forward to a cheque for £63,400 on his 65th birthday — with another £19,400 for his family if he died at the age of 80 . |
| 15 | In 1914 he was still only fifty-five and could look forward to a major job in the next Unionist government . |
| 16 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 17 | Ludwig Erhard , who succeeded Adenauer as Chancellor in October 1963 , was an experienced minister , the man held responsible for German economic success since 1949 , deeply committed to the US alliance and who , at 66 , could look forward to a long career as Chancellor — given the record of his predecessor . |
| 18 | If you cut your hair you 'd look just like a skinny boy . |
| 19 | All agreed that she would look best in a smart suit . |
| 20 | This last would look altogether like a castle keep but for the fantasy of its roof , which has a large slate cone perched , candle-snuffer fashion , on top of an already pointed lower roof . |
| 21 | W. Gilpin , the self appointed arbiter of taste , defined this word as ‘ that which would look well in a picture ’ . |
| 22 | Hence , if the introduction of the Agnus Dei penny was decided at Enham , or intended to reflect events there , it would look more like a continental peace meeting than ever ; and in this context , it is very unlikely to be coincidence that the name Enham apparently means " the place where lambs are bred " . |
| 23 | He said he would ask Sir David Attenborough to help her , which he did by checking out her agent and saying he would look out for a film part for her . ’ |
| 24 | From time to time he would look back with a certain pride at them . |
| 25 | ‘ I shall look out for a move . ’ |
| 26 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 27 | Now wives and Woopies can look forward to a happy New Year . |
| 28 | With Isaac God can look forward to a world over which he can again clap his hands in delight . |
| 29 | While the fundamentals of caddying may not have changed since Skip Daniels and Gene Sarazen strode the Prince 's links , the financial aspect has : whereas a caddie in the 1930s might have earned only a pittance for sharing an Open success , the modern-day caddie earns a healthy basic wage on the European tour , and can look forward to a percentage of the winnings . |
| 30 | So , by staying alive until that date , you can look forward to a substantial return on your investment — while remaining safe in the knowledge that , in the event of your death during that period , or subsequently , your family will be protected against any financial problems that might lie ahead . |