Example sentences of "look [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Captain looks constantly from side to side , ready to react to anything suspicious . |
| 2 | Though this section looks only at government regional policies and labour mobility policies , it is worth mentioning that these represent only a small proportion of government expenditure on aid to industry . |
| 3 | This is the only court of appeal for cases tried by the military court , and looks only at points of law and not at facts and findings , thus providing a restricted appeal . |
| 4 | The arts professional development teachers of the one LEA in the sample which had a cross-curriculum team looked enviously at colleagues in other curriculum areas who had national associations where they could meet to exchange curriculum and strategic information . |
| 5 | ‘ Gerontion ’ looks much towards death ; Eliot 's father died in January 1919 . |
| 6 | Wealden ironmasters , and even more so their men , are elusive figures , but a Wadhurst miller , taxed at £4 on land , looks much like John Barharn of Woodlands and Butts who in 1521 purchased Brooklands forge along with Bartley Mill . |
| 7 | Such an ambitious Tuscan confection surely deserves a cakestand , assembled as it is on a noble pedestal of rock , its buildings ( mixed plain and fancy ) composed of that porous tufa which looks much like sponge cake and which comes in all the golds , pinks , browns and mauves of the best Battenberg . |
| 8 | He looks thoughtfully at TOBY . |
| 9 | Marjorie looks unhappily at Vic , uncertain of his drift . ’ |
| 10 | The dodgy dance performed by a goal-scorer looks just like Steve outside the pub loos after half a shandy ! |
| 11 | ‘ Well , he looks just like whatsisname … and so does she , look — give a look , go on . ’ |
| 12 | Sources close to Bel say the tiny tot looks just like mom … right down to the dark sunglasses . |
| 13 | Did n't we see a boy that looks just like Barry ? |
| 14 | ‘ But I think Kevin looks just like Danny De Vito . ’ |
| 15 | The windscreen in front of the ‘ cabin' looks just like glass , but is in fact edible and made out of melted glacier mint — a clever and original idea you could adapt for other cakes , for example for windows . |
| 16 | Now that he is wearing a beard , he looks just like Dana — the square-shaped face , the mouth , the nose . |
| 17 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 18 | It looks just like smalltown America — the kind of place where you could set Twin Peaks or Back To The Future 4 — but it 's bigger . |
| 19 | My tears fell on his tiny cheeks and I thought , ‘ He looks just like Park ’ . |
| 20 | It 's really weird my mu erm one of my mum 's friends who 's a bit of goer , she 's got herself a new bloke called Jim yeah and he looks exactly like Jimmi Hendrix and he plays the guitar . |
| 21 | FENDER Telecaster , Japanese ‘ 62 , edgebound reissue in candy apple red metallic , looks exactly like Konpfler 's on Guitarist Sept cover , £250 . |
| 22 | Where reductivism is forward-looking , retributivism looks backwards in time , to the offence . |
| 23 | It had looked exactly like England : bicycles propped against hedges , trim gardens in housing estates , A.R.P . |
| 24 | This species looks superficially like Amphioplus verrilli but differs from that species by the following characters : the tentacle pores usually have a rounded tentacle scale whereas verrilli has no tentacle scales and the ventral arm plates are flat not ridge as in verrilli . |
| 25 | He folds his arms very tightly , and looks away over Howard 's shoulder . |
| 26 | With Hewlett-Packard Co heading for $18,800m turnover this year and Fujitsu Ltd at around the $26,000m mark , while Digital Equipment Corp looks hopefully to Alpha to rocket it off its $14,000m-a-year launchpad , the contenders to take over leadership of the mainstream computer industry from IBM Corp are lining up — and a major new round of mergers and acquisitions could be on the way . |
| 27 | And then Bissell had looked directly at Rohmer with those hellish , black eyes … and he had smiled . |
| 28 | The dropping of /h/ from who , also in l.8 , could be a London or Jamaican phenomenon , but since initial /h/ is likely to occur in Jamaican under conditions of emphasis , this h-dropping looks more like London speech . |
| 29 | The word can really looks more like cau . |
| 30 | The cold grey resembles the colour of Bath stone , whereas the warm buff looks more like Cotswold limestone . |