Example sentences of "look [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their specification however , looks down the road and anticipates the need to provide for both Microsoft Corp NT interoperability and Windows NT SparcWare applications in future . |
| 2 | Wishart had been away but he had heard the stories later , how Alexander had suddenly looked down the hall , dropping his cup and going pale with fright . |
| 3 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 4 | Stock the biker , the macho black-leathered never-properly-seen image of Nemesis , ( He had looked up the name in the London telephone directory ; there were one-and-a-half columns of them ; enough for quite a few coincidences , even in a city of six-and-a-half million people . ) |
| 5 | I took a trip into Albany an ’ looked up the architect 's plans of the house an' its estate . |
| 6 | The reference call to the hotel , The Randolph — that 's what he 'd remembered clearest of all , really : he 'd looked up the telephone number and then been put through , on the extension given to him by his client , to the Deputy Manageress , who had promptly and effusively vouched for the bona fides of Rent-a-Car 's prospective customer . |
| 7 | One woman had looked up the meaning of manipulate in the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 8 | ‘ In any case , I have looked up the time of your flight . |
| 9 | He had looked out the window of his hotel that morning , seen the rain , thought of the day that lay ahead of him and none of it any more seemed worthwhile . |
| 10 | a. a man and woman sitting in the living room + the woman sitting reading quite happily — the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window + and gets himself ready and goes out + |
| 11 | and woman sitting in the living room … the man 's bored goes to the window looks out the window … and goes out + goes to his goes to a club + has a drink talks to the barman |
| 12 | Instead I was looking down the quay to where a pathetically thin girl was walking beside a smartly dressed woman . |
| 13 | Lever sat up , staring outward , then turned , looking down the aisle of the transporter . |
| 14 | For the last few minutes before Ellen appeared , Ruth stood by the window , looking down the dale . |
| 15 | Looking down the meadow to the cabin , he saw no sign yet of the other four but the Eel was very close . |
| 16 | Lady Maude was looking down the hall , obviously looking out for her husband . |
| 17 | Looking down the basement steps which led to a paved area from which a door led straight into that kitchen which had secretly housed Bill Egan , he thought he could see that the door was ajar . |
| 18 | The judge was midway round the circle , looking down the scratch line , a grey-haired man in a torn suit jacket and a homburg . |
| 19 | Looking into the yawning mouth of the trap with the moonlight flickering on the wet slimy seaweed within , was not unlike looking down the throat of some attacking monster . |
| 20 | One can , looking down the microscope , observe the behaviour of individual cells as the embryo develops . |
| 21 | Finding herself back in the Imaginary Universes Laboratory , Gedanken lost no time in looking down the microscope again . |
| 22 | Gedanken thought there must be something wrong with her eyesight — the strain of looking down the microscope . |
| 23 | This makes control easier when looking down the microscope or when operating a computer keyboard for image analysis . |
| 24 | Rogers sat nodding , and looking down the table . |
| 25 | His feet are wide apart , legs straight , and his head is looking down the pitch over the left shoulder . |
| 26 | The doubts still persist that his statue-like stance — feet wide apart , legs straight and head looking down the pitch over the left shoulder — leaves him in no position to deal effectively with the fast , short delivery . |
| 27 | He stood at the edge of the slope , looking down the line of his cordon and into the turgid water . |
| 28 | Because it , it 's , it 's not particularly going to grab me because I 'm going to look at it and I 'm going to I 'm going to look down to see what it 's asking me do and certainly a busy news editor is looking down the line to see , and the first thing he 'll actually do is , is just have a , a very fast glance at it , find out what it 's about , and just make sure there 's someone who can be phoned , and what the news editor will do is actually throw it out into a pile of other handouts and there 's usually a journalist who 's , who 's who 's won first prize and their task for the day is to do all the handouts , and all you want to be sure of is that someone can make a phone call and the news editor wo n't , wo n't bother with any with any superfluous detail , all he 'd want to know is that somebody can be contacted , we 'll find out about it later . |
| 29 | It was like looking down the eye of a hurricane . |
| 30 | She found herself looking down the length of her legs , squinting through the V-shape of her feet at the gaggle of sails across the water , to try and isolate ‘ their ’ two . |