Example sentences of "look [adv prt] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reached the destination the driver looks back in horror and says the poodle has disgraced itself . |
| 2 | Numbers 20 itself looks back in verse 24 , and talks of Moses and Aaron rebelling against God 's command , and 27.14 uses much the same terms . |
| 3 | Veteran looks back in anguish Wednesday People . |
| 4 | For readers looking on in envy but undertaking a sharp intake of breath as they feel as second mortgage coming on , this is far from the case . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want to go to it ? ’ asked Betty , looking up in surprise . |
| 6 | Looking up in surprise , she found he had one eyebrow raised as though waiting for her to make some sarcastic comment , which successfully ensured that she did n't do any such thing . |
| 7 | There is always some value in looking back in history , and I offer a quotation that best seems to describe what we are about today . |
| 8 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |
| 9 | Looking back in order to look forward : a selection of last season 's sales |
| 10 | A view of the Flight gallery looking back in time , from the HS.125 in the foreground , to the Westland/Hill Pterodactyl and Supermarine S.6B in the background . |
| 11 | And when you look far into space , you 're also looking back in time and we 're looking back when we look at the very most distant objects . |
| 12 | And so you get an insight into his character , the way he thinks , what he feels now looking back in retrospect and just as important what he felt then . |
| 13 | Theda sighed and moved to the garden door , looking out in silence a moment . |
| 14 | She paused and Stuart saw her turn swiftly , looking around in case people were watching . |
| 15 | Beyond , the computer personnel were looking around in horror , some with hands over their ears as the screaming went on and on . |
| 16 | And if we we 're looking around in town . |
| 17 | As Taff was talking he was looking around in front of our position . |
| 18 | Beeswax ! he realised , looking about in wonder . |
| 19 | Far more telling is his astute portrayal of the humdrum : ‘ The hospital did not hold its breath and look on in admiration . |
| 20 | Nor could Creggan see that with that return of some sense of a spirit of life that can never die there came to the nearly lifeless wings of the close-caged Minch a sudden struggle and slight flutter of purpose — not much , but enough to make the Man look down in surprise and tighten his grip on the carrier cage . |
| 21 | And like I thought I 'm not gon na look up in case he goes for me or something , so I just kept my head in the pillow and pretended the light was blinding me oh ha ha cos when I get you alone what ? |
| 22 | As I chew and chew without swallowing , the Monster 's slobbering and sucky-grunting falls silent making me look up in alarm . |
| 23 | There was some nuance of intimacy in her tone that made Richard look up in surprise and then look at Frank . |
| 24 | If her father found himself sitting on his own , he would look up in terror and cry for humans . |
| 25 | An accountancy firm bailing out a floundering client from its own pocket and expecting nothing in return , on the other hand , might cause Austin Mitchell to look up in wonder . |
| 26 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 27 | When we look out in space ( and hence back in time ) to a redshift of 2 to 3 , we do indeed see a lot of quasars . |
| 28 | And er we had er a very fine teacher then when er I can look back in pleasure when I went to school . |
| 29 | You ca n't look back in football . |
| 30 | But I think , looking back in history , there has always been a erm strong erm religious motivation behind many of the past great scientists , like Newton , erm Boyle , Maxwell , Calvin — these are all people who had a very strong religious motivation erm behind their investigations , and if you look back in history still further , there is a strong case to be made that the reason why science was so dramatically successful in the west was because there was a strong belief in monotheistic religion , that people believe that the world had been created in an ordered way by a deity and so there really were laws of nature to be discovered , whereas if you study what happened in the Far East , for example , in China , the Chinese , you remember , were well ahead of the west in science at about the tenth century . |