Example sentences of "look the other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had Charles looked the other way — south , over the town bridge — we have a very good idea of exactly what he would have seen , thanks to a contemporary engraving by Abraham Crocker . |
| 2 | Most people around here would have just looked the other way . ’ |
| 3 | With hindsight it would have saved a lot of heartbreak if he had looked the other way . |
| 4 | At a time when Affirmative Action is under fire and the Bush administration conveniently looks the other way while the ultra-conservative Supreme Court dismantles school desegregation to ensure that minorities stay and are educated in their place , the nineties look increasingly like being the decade of the black woman . |
| 5 | ‘ He looks the other way , then ? ’ |
| 6 | asking questions , looking the other person in the eye ; |
| 7 | Mud pools wait until you are looking the other way before plopping discreetly . |
| 8 | Well , you ca n't call it a crime , can you , looking the other way in a cafe when somebody 's nicking your vehicle from a lay-by ? ’ |
| 9 | He was looking the other way , sorting mail . |
| 10 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 11 | Otley was looking the other way as if he did n't know me when I tried again with a pleasant , motherly woman with a shopping basket full of goodies . |
| 12 | They should have flown north in March , but perhaps they were n't paying attention when the others left , maybe deep in conversation or looking the other way . |
| 13 | Looking the other way ? |
| 14 | Mother Francis was looking the other way . |
| 15 | Marco was looking the other way . |
| 16 | She was looking the other way and did n't see me . ’ |
| 17 | looking the other way . |
| 18 | Josh liked reading comics , watching TV ( especially Dr Who ) , and peeing in his bath when his mother was looking the other way . |
| 19 | Of course , I did n't know then that he was responding , in the standard fashion , to the powerful combination of a girl ( any girl ) , the darkness , and a roomful of adults all looking the other way . |
| 20 | Although everyone somehow seemed to have been looking the other way at the time , the young man 's explanation was accepted and written down in his file to make it true . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps they were looking the other way . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah , he sort of sneaks , sneaks round everybody when they 're looking the other way . |
| 23 | I was looking the other day , when I was looking for some of these things . |
| 24 | when we were looking the other day , he quite fancies it . |
| 25 | as I say erm we 've got those but we were looking the other day and were quite amazed at how many different flowers there are out . |
| 26 | However , the San Franciscan police usually look the other way when drug workers swap needles , sometimes by putting clean syringes in a pram and inviting junkies to step up and feed ‘ the baby ’ . |
| 27 | We nod politely and look the other way to discourage further conversation . |
| 28 | Should you glimpse topless mermaids … just look the other way . |
| 29 | Turn a deaf ear , look the other way . |
| 30 | Just look the other way ? ’ |