Example sentences of "they [vb mod] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may look forward to good occupational pension , a significant state earnings-related pension and a cash sum from maturing insurance policies . |
| 2 | They ought to look again , for Mr Major is putting together a group of clear-minded , like-minded ministers and advisers , just as Mrs Thatcher did . |
| 3 | They must look equally imposing on the breakfast table . |
| 4 | This time Sausage accompanied her , and as she set off with the the two small boys and their three dogs , Korah , Dathan and Abiram , she reflected that they must look rather like a circus . |
| 5 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 6 | Shelley reflected that they must look less like a doctor and a nurse discussing their clinic rota , and a lot more like a couple in love murmuring sweet nothings . |
| 7 | People who are concerned to preserve their own well-being , and also to strive to do a better job , need to look in two directions for help : they must look inwards , to gain insight into the dynamics of their own stress ; and they must look outwards , to understand better the social forces that surround them . |
| 8 | She thought vaguely that they must look very striking , like a shot from a new-wave British film , locked in an embrace beside the broken statue in this dead fun palace , with the November dusk swirling around them and Finn 's hair so ginger , hers so black , spun together by the soft little hands of a tiny wind , yellow and black hairs tangled together . |
| 9 | Cos he 's quite good in a , but it 's so easy to get wrapped up with , obviously at that age it 's very impressionable and very like they , they must look so big to a lot of people that they go out |
| 10 | They should look again at the literature , and they should listen to their patients . |
| 11 | They should look very closely at the Guatemalan experience before doing so . |
| 12 | I 'm sure they 'll look there . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll have , have to do that later for you because you wo n't be doing it then , this lesson next year , and if your pots do n't go up in the kiln I will be glazing for you , so of course you see the colour and everything we do n't have the time to do that , it 's a shame , well actually they 'll look very smart just with the glaze on , but I 'll try and get that done for you , okay , can you put your hand up if there is |
| 14 | They might look very attractive |
| 15 | He lifted an edge so that they could look underneath , where it was criss-crossed with a lattice of deep ribs . |
| 16 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 17 | And then we used to make crayon patterns of the top and then when they went whizzing round they used to look very pretty . |
| 18 | They used to look especially pathetic in summer . |
| 19 | With a wry smile he thought to himself that all it needed was a few thousand square miles of northern forest such as might be found in Norway or Canada and they would look completely right . |
| 20 | Obviously , they would look pretty stupid wearing a T-shirt that read , ‘ That 's a nice dress you 're wearing ’ , so they may lounge around in something which relays almost the same message , but in a more roundabout way . |
| 21 | but , that they would look favourably on two . |
| 22 | Benny and Eve were in the window of Healy 's Hotel practising having cups of coffee so that they would look well accustomed to it when they got to the Dublin coffee houses . |
| 23 | For our present purpose , though , they would look rather flat and not very magical : try it and you 'll probably agree . |
| 24 | One or two mentioned that they would look forward to the course and that if they were not going to an ATB event they would be out anyway . |
| 25 | They will look exactly the same , but temperature and moisture will be controlled … in effect they will cease to age |
| 26 | Whilst the daisies look fine as they are , they will look quite stunning with the addition of a few butterflies and these are great fun to create . |
| 27 | Thieves are n't stupid — they will look there first . |
| 28 | At the moment erm because of the extra time we 've got available because production investment has been delayed because of ministerial decisions , we 've set in train three further studies and they will look collectively at alternatives , comparison in combat modelling and also in the numbers and if I could describe those three very briefly because I think they 're the they 're relevant to what we 're talking about . |
| 29 | Having faced life without the departed partner , they can look forward to fulfilling their dream of finding the one who will share their life in a more perfect union . |
| 30 | But they can look forward to 1993 with renewed optimism after conceding 81 goals in 50 senior matches during the past 12 months of instability and transition . |