Example sentences of "looked [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was great thing to keep it and it was always kept and looked after until the following year . |
| 2 | As we came upon the moving picture with its ability not only to entertain us but also to analyse what we could not easily see with the unaided eye , we began to recognize that we had new tools for discovery ; we now knew exactly how a horse used its feet in galloping , what an explosion was like in slow motion , what a street looked like to the condensed eye of the time-lapse camera . |
| 3 | This morning she was in another of her daydreams , it looked like to the exasperated Victorine . |
| 4 | Indeed , Pausanias shows us what an account of a war with the Celts looked like in the pre-scientific days of Celtic studies , in the third century B.C. Direct contacts with the Celts seem to have been confined to prisoners or to mercenaries , bad subjects for ethnographic research |
| 5 | For the later prehistoric period , rather more evidence is now available from Dartmoor and the major river valleys of what early landscapes looked like in the 2000 years or so before the Roman Conquest , and how such early arrangements conditioned the later , more easily recognised , post-Roman countryside . |
| 6 | He liked taking them apart and putting them together again in the wrong order to make new toys and would do this all day until he had forgotten what they looked like in the first place . |
| 7 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 8 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 9 | The textbook picture of the lower part of the Lower jurassic in England , looked at in the usual two-dimensional textbook way , along the outcrop , is of thinning over three axes with thicker basins of sedimentation in between ( figure 3.2a ) . |
| 10 | It shows how these different styles are likely to have a marked effect on the crime statistics collected by particular police forces , an issue we looked at in the previous chapter on criminal statistics . |
| 11 | Then you tell the story of the murder and the subsequent investigation , adroitly working in the fact that there was a red light shining at the vital time and place , using one of the ways of tricking your reader into " noticing and not noticing " this that we looked at in the previous chapter , and you also harp like mad on the impossibility of a person in a black dress or suit having been on hand at the moment the murder was committed . |
| 12 | We can see the similarities here between the scientific approach to organisations and its similarity to bureaucracy that we looked at in the previous chapter . |
| 13 | The other half ‘ with thee I am well pleased ’ comes from that picture of the Servant of Yahweh in Isaiah 42:1 which we looked at in the last chapter . |