Example sentences of "a [noun] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day a district nurse visits and every night a sister looks in . |
| 2 | However , the DES has expressed a willingness to look sympathetically at limited transitional arrangements to help schools that enter the new system with serious inherited problems , such as buildings in a very poor state of repair . |
| 3 | When processing through time , choices have to be made about how good a hypothesis looks now . |
| 4 | The Government have a responsibility to look more carefully at the positive arguments advanced . |
| 5 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 6 | And a physicist looking even more closely would try to picture these molecules of tennis player as clouds of electrons whirling round nuclei . |
| 7 | A heron looks over at us . |
| 8 | Not that she had much of a future to look forward to . |
| 9 | A stranger looking back . |
| 10 | We were in a car looking down over the Bay and I said I 've got to go out . |
| 11 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 12 | I 'm sitting up on a hillside looking down on Lollapalooza , by a ski lodge which is shut down for the summer . |
| 13 | Now , let's pretend we are the assassin , standing here with a crossbow looking up towards the sanctuary . ’ |
| 14 | At that the hut stood still , and the door opened , and a girl looked out . |
| 15 | A boy looked out of a toy wigwam and fired an arrow with a rubber end at the car . |
| 16 | For example , the insistence of planning authorities upon the use of certain building materials , the standards of design and external finish and the density of housing development reflect their traditional concern with how a house or a village looks rather than who will actually live in it . |
| 17 | But one , hung in the dining room , by a window looking out onto a most majestic ancient cedar tree , is strikingly different to all the others . |
| 18 | At the foot of the bed , a window looked out on dip-backed slate roofs . |
| 19 | From a distance , a buzzard sitting on a post looks just like an extension of that post , because its brown plumage mingles very easily with similarly coloured items . |
| 20 | We were in a sort of back room , and at one point we gave a particularly loud whoop at a particularly long word and a waiter looked in to see if we were calling for anything and then went away . |
| 21 | It was a focus in the day ; a point to look forward to , to work towards . |
| 22 | I saw a dwarfish exter on the floor with a nasty gash on his head , while another exter with claws and a beak looked about to disembowel him where he lay . |
| 23 | for more than 50 years ICI acrylic materials — sheet and mooulding powders — have been used and enjoyed worldwide , Ken Barrlett reports on a business looking forward to the next 50 years . |
| 24 | These tendencies are at most tangentially in line with changes in concentration , suggesting a need to look elsewhere for causal factors . |
| 25 | As a teacher Blamey is gratefully remembered by many of his students Jacqueline Rizivi remembers him as one of the most effective teachers at Chelsea ‘ He taught a ‘ state of mind ’ , an honesty , a need to look clearly and precisely at any object or figure . |
| 26 | While the principles of CAP reform should remain , he said , there was a need to look again at how the agreement should be implemented . |
| 27 | She watched as he stood beside the car for a moment looking up towards the house . |
| 28 | He straightened up , came to the front of the shop and stood for a moment looking out impassively . |
| 29 | He had thrown aside his own robe then , and had stood for a moment looking down at her , the firelight playing over his body , and Grainne had felt her senses tumble , for surely , oh surely there had never been anything so beautiful and so strong … |
| 30 | We were back in the bedroom then and he stood for a moment looking down at her . |