Example sentences of "'s [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a secret , suspect taste for girls of rather better background than oneself : hypergamy — marrying upward — a Fifties custom extensively explored in Osborne 's play Look Back In Anger . ’ |
| 2 | The window of Ramsey 's study looked out to the west end of the cathedral . |
| 3 | Lewis 's eyes looked up in puzzlement . |
| 4 | You can only see people 's eyes looking out of the eye-holes in the clothes . |
| 5 | Didcot 's scorer looked in with a chance of a second , and also taking the pressure off when he was put through , but instead of trying what looked a goal chance , chose to pass after sixty one minutes . |
| 6 | Three contenders for Mr Lamont 's job looked on clearly wondering what timebombs on tax they might be landed with in the years ahead . |
| 7 | The object of bereavement work with the elderly can be more one of continuing supportive intervention and understanding the old person 's need to look back over the past years and relationships than of expecting them to ‘ work through ’ their grief to its resolution . |
| 8 | One wonders whether Richard 's failure to look up from his work ( perhaps copying a manuscript ) betokened exasperation at the interruption . |
| 9 | The window of Miss D'Armande 's room looked out onto Broadway and its theatres . |
| 10 | Nicola 's husband looked up wearily , his voice no more than the rustle of dead leaves . |
| 11 | He turned round at the corner of Queen Charlotte 's Alley to look back . |
| 12 | Then you 'd see old Pat McEwen 's wife looking out for you . |
| 13 | The King 's bust looks out from the obverse ; the reverse carries an abbreviated version of Charles ' declaration to ‘ defend the Protestant religion , the liberties of Parliament and the laws of England , ’ together with his prayer for ‘ the scattering of the enemies . ’ |
| 14 | He had , as Dalgliesh knew , grudgingly respected Kate 's ability to look down at the butchered bodies in St Matthew 's vestry and not be sick , but he had n't liked her the better for it . |
| 15 | It was not in Richard Branson 's instincts to look back , but occasionally — just occasionally — he thought about Student , and what it might have become . |
| 16 | The following Monday afternoon , shortly after lunch , two customers poring over the jewellery in Fox 's Lair looked up in surprise as a tall man came into the shop like a whirlwind and gave Elise a brief , unsmiling greeting . |
| 17 | There seemed to be a child 's face looking in at the window . |
| 18 | After a year or a month or possibly half an hour , God 's face looked in . |
| 19 | Connon 's face looked back at him . |
| 20 | Jake Rosso 's face looked down at me . |
| 21 | The rear cockpit is practically identical to the front , but does have one truly unique piece of hefty-looking ironmongery : a big black binocular periscope fixed right in front of the occupant 's face to look over front seater 's head |
| 22 | But the results can be absolutely invaluable if one 's colleagues look over the draft and , with no holds barred , pick on every doubtful point . |