Example sentences of "not look [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Smith claimed that , although Coleman invited medical men to attend the College with the promise of an early diploma , these educated people were not looked on with favour , for they were able to see through Coleman 's ‘ shallow and fatuous system ’ . |
| 2 | They were reluctant to believe that there could ever have been a time when the Universe had not looked much like it is today . |
| 3 | Kernaghan has not looked back since then . |
| 4 | There was thirteen years difference between my elder sister and youngest brother — two girls and then three boys , of whom Basil was the eldest — and though this arrangement was not ideal when we came of an age to meet husbands among our brothers ' friends , it did mean that we all got along very well together and as sisters were not looked down upon by older and superior male beings as I often saw happen in other families . |
| 5 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 6 | ‘ Would it surprise you to know that in the five years since I first set eyes on you , I have not looked seriously at another woman ? |
| 7 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 8 | ‘ To a terrific Sloane called Sukey , ’ said Perdita , not looking up from Horse and Hound . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose so , ’ said Bob , not looking up from his work . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you like me calling you John ? ’ asked Jannie , not looking up from her shopping list . |
| 11 | ‘ There 's nothing really radical to say about it , ’ said Lydia , not looking up from her letter . |
| 12 | Hornby on the occasion rebuked Brixton for not looking properly at the CNAA 's regulations — and the College was subsequently to have its proposals approved . |
| 13 | I was not looking forward to the packing . |
| 14 | She , Clarissa , was not looking forward to telephoning Lady Southdown , as she was bound to do , to thank her for a lovely evening . |
| 15 | Quite the reverse ; he was not looking forward to going back . |
| 16 | I AM NOT LOOKING FORWARD to tomorrow . |
| 17 | I am not looking forward to tomorrow . |
| 18 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 19 | He is not looking forward to Christmas and Sophie 's second birthday on January 15 . |
| 20 | CAUSE ( Catholics against Unemployment and Social Evils ) have launched their annual appeal for hampers , for those who are not looking forward to Christmas . |
| 21 | He was to commence night shifts and he was not looking forward to that , not with the strange thoughts and worries crowding his mind . |
| 22 | The Wisharts , who lived in North London , were not looking forward to the long train journey one little bit ; being just after the war , the trains were run down , lacked essential maintenance and did n't keep very good time , so the Wisharts regarded the prospects of the journey with considerable misgivings . |
| 23 | Personally , I 'm just not looking forward to seeing some Roseanne Arnold look-alike corseted into a catsuit . |
| 24 | He was not looking forward to his return . |
| 25 | She was not looking forward to her coming out as an Italian girl , but she was determined not to let herself get married early . |
| 26 | She was not looking forward to life at her uncle 's house . |
| 27 | Anxiety made her speak more sharply than she had intended ; she was not looking forward to telling Madame Gebrec just why Officer Hassan was about to pay her another visit and it was a relief when Madame Delon answered her call . |
| 28 | Mary-Claude was sad to leave because , after spending much of the summer visiting her family with Sarah , she was not looking forward to an indefinite stay in Alabama , where she knew hardly anyone and where , after Beirut and Larnaca , the sheer difference in the scale of everything made her feel uneasy and exposed . |
| 29 | And I 'm really not looking forward to that one . |
| 30 | But tt I 'm not looking forward to it . |