Example sentences of "look in the [adj] direction " in BNC.
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| 1 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 2 | But perhaps we are looking in the wrong direction . |
| 3 | In fact I think the people who are looking in the direction of change in terms of parent governors and P T As etcetera are , I think looking in the wrong direction . |
| 4 | It did n't take long to get Graham 's eyes looking in the same direction . |
| 5 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 6 | In fact love has been defined as not looking at each other , but looking in the same direction . |
| 7 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 8 | When a startled horse pricks his ears at the source of his alarm , other horses look in the same direction . |
| 9 | Reach the bollard which gives you the opportunity to pause , and take your time before you look in the opposite direction and cross the other half of the road . |
| 10 | ‘ Wherever that man is , look in the opposite direction . |
| 11 | His feet felt like lead and slowly , fearfully , he turned to look in the general direction of the voice . |
| 12 | We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency . |
| 13 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 14 | My personal preference , while awaiting further light , is to look in the opposite direction . |
| 15 | Where others were most sharply conscious of the crisis posed for theology by the development of modern culture and the change in our self-awareness , he saw the real crisis as lying in the inability of theology to do justice to its object , and called it to look in the opposite direction from that it had been taking . |
| 16 | Defries turned and looked in the other direction . |
| 17 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 18 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |