Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark market might think a backlash they , they 'd better look for himself to remind himself there 's no backlash in Highfield . |
| 2 | They did not look at each other and they did not eat much . |
| 3 | They did not look at each other as they spoke , and when Damian moved away from her he avoided her eyes . |
| 4 | There were curious villagers waiting for the wedding to begin in the back seats of the church but they did not look to left or right . |
| 5 | They did not look as if that was the case , actually . |
| 6 | They did not look like sisters . |
| 7 | They did not look like the kind of people she usually associated with but seemed inimical , common , even savage , and with truculent , peevish faces . |
| 8 | They were smartly dressed , they did not look like thugs , but their faces were stamped with unpleasantness . |
| 9 | I mean it would n't be the truth but you , if they did n't look into it you could say it could n't you ? |
| 10 | Little was known , either , about the families of fourteen children taken into care in Aberdeen at around the same time as those in Ayrshire ; they did n't look for publicity , speak to the press or generate such wide interest and public concern . |
| 11 | They showed this to Auntie Lou and she gave them a frame so that they could hang it in their bedroom , but they did n't look at it much . |
| 12 | I walked into assembly and everybody turned round and they did n't look at me , they looked at my stomach , everybody in that hall . |
| 13 | They did n't look at all impressive last week when losing 4-2 to Edinburgh Civil Service in a friendly . |
| 14 | The tears were moistening her hair so that it clung to her cheeks , and they did n't look like stopping . |
| 15 | ‘ They did n't look like that when I was at college . |
| 16 | But they did n't look like screenplay writers . |
| 17 | I had seen " choking " horses — the dry choke when the gullet becomes impacted with food but they did n't look like this . |
| 18 | Strangely enough , for such a filthy place , there was a lot of washing on lines ; at least , they did n't look like the mere rags one might expect . |
| 19 | Nothing except their youth and the way they do n't look at their future much . |
| 20 | You know , I think it is now more a traditional family time , Christmas , and you know they do n't look at Hogmanay the same . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , they find something to click at and when they 've clicked at it they do n't look at it any more but move on and click at something else . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ They do n't look as if they 're seeing . |
| 23 | They do n't look on them things , how much you 've got owed out to ya . |
| 24 | I mean really anybody can say anything if you do n't , if they do n't look into it . |
| 25 | Littlewoods say they are not worried by the prospect of disappointed customers complaining they do n't look like catwalk queens in their £9.99 clothes . |
| 26 | ‘ Women ask themselves why they do n't look like us , ’ she remarks in Lindbergh 's film . |
| 27 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 28 | they 're fractions , they do n't look like fractions , if someone writes down sixty per cent you think , that 's not a fraction , I ca n't see any , with |
| 29 | They do n't look like the boot and shoes we used to swe , wear . |
| 30 | Oh they do n't look like tadpoles . |