Example sentences of "the [noun] looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prince looked upon the towns as part of his patrimony and those townsmen not on monastic or boyar land as his tenants . |
| 2 | In January 1991 , the Board looked at the responses to this consultation and used the views of respondents to help shape our new Quality Framework and the development programme which will help to put it in place — the Quality Development Programme — QDP . |
| 3 | The Archdeacon looked at the Inspector kindly , as at a son who has much to learn . |
| 4 | One of the Hunters looked over the android 's body ; its demonic face staring down at the android 's features . |
| 5 | The researchers looked at the amplitude of the brain-waves and the latency of the brain 's response to the stimulus . |
| 6 | The Admiral looked through the window of his cabin . |
| 7 | The soldier looked over the parapet and saw to his horror the vague heap of a body ; he scrambled down the bank but as he approached , the vision slowly faded , there was no one there . |
| 8 | We now know from Russian eyes , particularly from Khrushchev 's much suspected but surely authentic memoirs , how precarious and nerve-ridden the future looked to the Communist high command when Stalin succumbed to his stroke on 5 March , 1953 . |
| 9 | The liftmaster looked at the others questioningly . |
| 10 | The programme looked at the effect on the environment of three manmade lakes in Africa . |
| 11 | The superintendent looked at the reporter coldly . |
| 12 | The lawyer looked at the will , then at Poole , and finally at the dead man on the floor . |
| 13 | When the authors looked at the proportion of the community experiencing vulnerability factors , important social class differences emerged . |
| 14 | They advocated returning the land to the peasants and drastically reforming the agricultural system ; in foreign policy the parties looked towards the European Communities ( EC ) and the Western democracies . |
| 15 | The Jews looked at the kingdom of Heaven in two different ways : |
| 16 | So the management looked at the , the thing very critically and they , they designed a new stabilizer erm which did away with the whole housing , which did away with the cross er crossheads and the slides and it was so easily produced er that we were then seeking to , to sales representatives to go out and look for other work . |
| 17 | Beyond the window the desert looked like the tough dry hide of some prehistoric beast . |
| 18 | When the lights came up the girl looked at the audience , her mouth slowly opened and on her face was an expression of incredulity . |
| 19 | The King looked at the Queen , and the Queen looked at the executioner . |
| 20 | The hijacker looked at the photo , and then at Carl . |
| 21 | The Indian looked at the note , then at Ward . |
| 22 | The judge looked at the airport policeman . |
| 23 | Only the boy looked at the two men sledging a length of iron on the outside anvil . |
| 24 | The boy looked at the ceiling . |
| 25 | The boy looked at the Trunchbull . |
| 26 | The child looked like the orphan of the storm , and Janine looked terrible . |
| 27 | The Japanese had been very clever in disguising themselves as Burmans and sometimes as Buddhist monks , with the result that many of the troops looked upon the Burmese as a lot of traitors . |
| 28 | The Coroner looked at the police officers who sat just in front of the Foreign Office representatives . |
| 29 | The room looked like the dining room ; a sideboard with some bottles and a bowl of fruit on it was visible , and Penelope was now able to see that the remains of a kind of meal — a loaf of bread , a hunk of orange-coloured cheese and two glasses — were set out on one half of the table . |
| 30 | In order to separate a lunar effect the team looked at the lunar day , the position of the Moon . |