Example sentences of "looked [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring her , he looked through a small pile of paperbacks on the bedside table then settled down with the latest Ken Follett . |
| 2 | Pavel sat gazing out at the loading area as the man looked through a small number of memos and facsimile messages . |
| 3 | One afternoon I lay down and looked through a large attic skylight . |
| 4 | She looked through a steely sheet of rain to where Stephen was pointing . |
| 5 | The Possessed looked for a long time like losing its way , and Dostoevsky would surely concede that in so far as the design was , to use his own word , tendentious , this was bound to be so . |
| 6 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 7 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |
| 8 | Tony Dobson put Portsmouth ahead early on and it looked for a long time as though that was going to be the only goal of the game . |
| 9 | The county council said all children with special needs were given an individual programme and the LEA looked for a wide range of experience when recruiting . |
| 10 | We also looked for a geographical spread of writers . |
| 11 | He looked for a middle path . |
| 12 | ‘ Our oil-fired central heating system was showing signs of age , so the National Trust 's adviser on Conservation Heating looked for a new system which would be efficient , cost effective and environmentally sound . |
| 13 | Uwe Otten , H.P. Lorenz and F. Busiger of the University of Basel and Hoffmann-La Roche looked for a possible connection with the protein nerve growth factor ( NGF ) . |
| 14 | I recalled those days at school and looked for a sympathetic response . |
| 15 | ‘ I looked for a single builder , because I wanted to work closely with someone while I was doing the ‘ unpicking ’ myself , ’ Timothy says . |
| 16 | Britain — after the traumas of the 1960s — looked for a modest space policy , low profile and low risk . |
| 17 | The reason for this seems to have been that Victorian British industrialists looked for a quick return , while the Germans were more prepared to take a long view . |
| 18 | Lt Tim Kelly , 45 , a specialist in mobile air operations , said : ‘ I looked for a little girl who had been injured by shrapnel so I could have her winched aboard . |
| 19 | I looked for a textured effect by taking the broad tips sideways over the paper surface . |
| 20 | In fact , Milton 's skipper , Paul Storey hacked the ball off his own line in twelve minutes as Bishops looked for an early goal . |
| 21 | In the third case , one teacher took responsibility for the majority , while the other looked after a small group , or even an individual . |
| 22 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 23 | Remember : the Government had set for the growth of earnings a guideline of five per cent ; and looked towards a long-term approach in which collective bargaining would be based each year on a broad agreement between Government , union and employers about the maximum level of earnings which would be compatible with keeping inflation under control in the following twelve months . |
| 24 | He looked like a male model . |
| 25 | Still , he wanted to keep something of that spirit , if only its dauntlessness in what looked like a hopeless future ; for similarly contemporary reasons he wanted to offer his readers a model of elementary virtue existing without the support of religion . |
| 26 | It looked like a dull day outside but she could n't just sit in her room doing nothing . |
| 27 | Strachan was carried off with what looked like a nasty injury . |
| 28 | She probably looked like a guilty schoolgirl caught out in some prank . |
| 29 | Ace looked up from where she was starting to fit the parts together into what looked like a home-made machine gun . |
| 30 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |