Example sentences of "they looked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly they looked to the central government for more grants and financial help . |
| 2 | Well they , they had gone into the production of er steel er turning er in such a way that er they looked for the best possible tools er in order , one , that they could produce the item more cheaply as far as the employing class is concerned , they want to produce it as cheap as they can and probably sell it the dearest . |
| 3 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 4 | There was a little wistfulness about these village girls when they looked at the rich convent girls in their expensive clothes . |
| 5 | They looked at the black box . |
| 6 | They looked at the low asset base and in the end it was decided to go for a trade sale . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size . |
| 8 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 9 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 10 | In this survey they looked at the different kinds of training and jobs undertaken by black people and found that they were likely to be doing worse jobs than white youth irrespective of their qualifications . |
| 11 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 12 | They looked through the open doorway , and there , smiling in at them , was a tall , pleasant-looking lady . |
| 13 | Their social circle was more geographically widespread and they looked beyond the local village for their friends and kin . |
| 14 | Ceramic floor tiles gained tremendously in popularity when holidaymakers saw how attractive they looked in the Continental settings . |
| 15 | They looked in the other room , but found no supper . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two men were seen running from the area , and one witness said they looked like the two accused . |
| 18 | Klift spoke for all of them as they looked around the sloping entranceway . |