Example sentences of "looked for [art] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He looked for a long time , then said : ‘ I can see no one , but my eyes are old . |
| 3 | On reaching the top of the hill , Tess paused and looked for a long time at the familiar green world of home . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He looked for a last time at Lucille . |
| 6 | I looked for the first time straight into his moonlit eyes , and I saw Perkin the son , the husband , the one who worked with wood . |
| 7 | While there , he looked for the first time through papers which his father , Herbert Cranko , had left : two notebooks and a number of typescripts . |
| 8 | Harry looked for the first time at the cheque where it lay beside him , flattened by the base of the lamp . |
| 9 | Throwing back his head , he looked for the last time at the cloud-torn sky , and begged the Lord to watch over them and keep them safe ; and then he was gone , and all that remained was the surging waves and the cold , white crests of foam . |
| 10 | She looked for the last time . |