Example sentences of "look [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It , as I said earlier , really just looks up a table of data values , numerical values , and comes up with an answer and you ca n't question it , you ca n't ask it why did you get that particular answer . |
| 2 | Looks quite a lot . |
| 3 | CHERYL had not looked forward a bit to her holiday . |
| 4 | But if you 're looking down a back entry or something , you ca n't always be there . |
| 5 | I stood looking down a flight of seven stairs in my Afro wig , custom-built frock and charm bracelet , listening to the band tune up and waiting for my intro . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 7 | When he is not looking over a sea of grain , is overlooking the sea ! |
| 8 | I am standing with Joe , a round the world Australian , beneath eucalyptus trees , looking over a landscape that can be read like a Breughel . |
| 9 | Fritz Juventi from the Valenzuela Perseverance , looking not a day older in his tricorn and spats . |
| 10 | The plot goes something like this : Bowser ( an evil character ) has captured Mario and has got his evil Koopas ( looking just a bit like the Teenage Mutant Nija Turtles ) to steal parts of famous monuments from around the world . |
| 11 | Erm I was very , very interested in an interview I heard last weekend I think it was with Pete , when he made the comment that he was n't interested in back to basics because that was looking backwards a lot of people in the past lived pretty miserable lives . |
| 12 | The short-term store has a limit of about twenty seconds unless there is opportunity for rehearsal , e.g. this is the maximum time available between looking up a telephone number and then dialling it unless the operator repeats it to himself . |
| 13 | To that should be added a familiarity with the commonest ways of symbolising sounds ; a dictionary user faced with looking up a word whose spelling he does n't know , ought to be able to choose where to start looking for it , with a fair degree of success . |
| 14 | Looking up a reference in a library on some topic , a firm doing market research for a new product , an opinion poll prior to an election , physicists building particle colliders to find an elusive sub-atomic particle , the search for a cure for AIDs , and many , many more would all qualify as research in this sense . |
| 15 | Things are looking up a bit at the moment . |
| 16 | This logical identifier has to uniquely identify the record , and its actual address can also be obtained by looking up a table containing the addresses of all the identifiers . |
| 17 | Looking back a quarter of a century to that statement , perhaps the most obvious awkwardness today lies in its easy assumption that there was , in the 1960s , a common culture to be transmitted . |
| 18 | I if I were you I 'd probably be er you know looking around a bit . |
| 19 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 20 | Well then when they start looking about a bit more , that is when it costs you because anything that Les has to get involved in , cos they go back to Les and say well why did he do this and why did you do that ? |
| 21 | I have found it very useful to prepare a graphical cropping plan ( see Figure 3 ) looking ahead a number of years . |
| 22 | But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm afraid I do look rather a fright . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I might look in a bit later . |
| 25 | ’ But those years he would go into his study afterwards with the coffee her mother made , to smoke his pipe and look over a case , and he shut the door . |
| 26 | Suspiciousness becomes almost an instinct , powerful and all-pervasive : ‘ When you go out on a Sunday afternoon [ in the country ] , say , and you look over a bridge at the stream , you can not help yourself . |
| 27 | One way in which we can look over a writer 's shoulder , and observe the process of composition , is by examining alterations made both in manuscript , and in revised editions of a work . |
| 28 | " Maybe you will look over a gate and see a cow in the field . |
| 29 | Unworthy as I am , I look just a bit like Eric . |
| 30 | I have n't seen these look just a minute , please . |