Example sentences of "look [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 2 | The candidate looks down the offered answers arid circles A or B or C or whichever answer he thinks appropriate . |
| 3 | Filigree Street crosses its turnwise end in the manner of the crosspiece of a T , and the Broken Drum is so placed that it looks down the full length of the street . |
| 4 | But Morton Pitt 's Preventive Station and the Battery would have looked much the same 30 years earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ It looks much the same to me . ’ |
| 6 | But it looks just the same as a real animal . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The men on the right wing and the men on the left have lost half the ranks behind them , although they 're spread out and from the front it looks just the same . |
| 8 | ‘ The times I have gone shopping , left him babysitting , to arrive home four hours later and it all looks exactly the same or worse . |
| 9 | Consequently , the structure looks exactly the same from each and every amino-acid residue . |
| 10 | Tenor clef looks exactly the same but middle C is now there . |
| 11 | ‘ No , he looks exactly the same . |
| 12 | In fact , my dear , we 've looked out the old bath chair . |
| 13 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 14 | But she ultimately reached the Rante and was lifted up the death-house steps looking little the worse for wear and , if anything , pinker with health . |
| 15 | Photo : Suttons Looking down the 15th hole in the early 1970's . |
| 16 | Looking down the long straight of Avenida del Sol , I saw a rainbow 's end brushing the sign dug into the hillside : ‘ Viva el Peru ’ . |
| 17 | Whoever suggested the grandiose title and subtitle of this book was looking down the wrong end of a microscope . |
| 18 | Thorfinn , looking down the short length of the table to his wife 's cousin opposite , said , ‘ I heard about your wife . |
| 19 | Its beauty lies not in its architecture , but in the magnificence of its views as it sits in splendid isolation on top of a steep hill looking down the unencumbered views across fields , moors and woodland to the river valleys of the Wye and Elan . |
| 20 | She remembered looking down the sunny garden and feeling content . |
| 21 | And then the whole thing swivelled round in my head , and I was looking down the same chimney from the top , and nothing was about to stop me falling down it . |
| 22 | Fei Yen stood by the window looking down the steep slope towards the terrace and the ornamental lake . |
| 23 | ‘ Between the top of Skiddaw and the Lake of Bassenthwaite the numerous narrow openings are happily described by Housman … ‘ on looking down the profound precipice in almost any direction the eye recoils with horror . |
| 24 | In areas where there are a number of pumice deposits present , all of them looking much the same , it 's clearly a difficult job to tell them apart and , more important , to recognize the same individual deposits in separate localities which may be many kilometres apart . |
| 25 | They are unhappy with the idea of a Universe that has not existed infinitely looking much the same as it does today — the same consideration which fuelled the Steady State Theory . |
| 26 | In any one place the two species mimic each other , looking much the same ; but in different places the members of a species differ : both species vary geographically in the same manner . |
| 27 | The bay to his left was labelled ‘ Fiction A-H ’ , and to his right was the cash desk looking much the same as it must have done on the day the shop was first opened . |
| 28 | The wheat went on for thousands of miles , looking just the same everywhere . |
| 29 | what you see is what you get — what you see on the screen should be printed looking exactly the same . |
| 30 | Mind you , I mean there 's no point they 'll be looking up the first word of each of these |