Example sentences of "looked [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looked on across a fence . |
| 2 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 3 | It can be looked on as a discussion document and its coincidence with the real world is verified in discussions with the various users . |
| 4 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 5 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 6 | Except that even with costume and make-up the star had looked less like a pirate than Nathan Bryce did at this moment . |
| 7 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 8 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 9 | In any other season you could have looked down from a ridge just below the pastures where the sheep were grazing and seen the village in miniature , a doll 's farm set in a patchwork of agricultural land that spread across the valley floor . |
| 10 | As head of government from 1985 to 1988 , Mr Junejo often looked more like a schoolteacher than a political leader and was a strict disciplinarian . |
| 11 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 12 | If you 've ever looked up at a stage and seen a strange device with an illuminated spinning dial and wondered what it was , chances are it was a strobe tuner . |
| 13 | I travel on an Irish passport and in going through Immigration was looked up in a register of , I presume , suspects . |
| 14 | We have looked favourably at a number of their items in the past but over the last year or two they have acquired a growing respect for the estimable sound of their CD players . |
| 15 | He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length . |
| 16 | Those cropped military curls , that monumental neck and straight nose , would have looked well in a bronze helmet ; no doubt he recognised his own kind , and was at home with them . |
| 17 | As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton . |
| 18 | Whether the quartet actively looked around for a site is not known but in 1905 they formed a syndicate by joining with two other men — J. A. Rawlins and F. E. Theodor — who were already buying and selling land for development in the Shiplake and Harpsden areas and whose earlier purchases included Bolney Court , Lower Bolney Farm and Upper Bolney Farm . |
| 19 | Aware that there was no accepted path for women in deacons ' orders in the Church of England , she had nevertheless looked around for a curacy which would put her in possession of solid parish experience . |
| 20 | I 've looked everywhere for a weapon , but there 's nothing of any use , even if I had the strength and skill . |
| 21 | Having looked briefly at a number of issues — under-fives , black children in care , adoption and fostering , and young offenders — and highlighted problems such as the disproportionate custody decisions concerning young black people , she challenges the current position on policy and practice . |
| 22 | I wanted to do the things John and I had looked forward to a year and a half ago , to travel as we had planned , to work abroad , have a family before too long . |
| 23 | He had looked forward to a day in the sun , the simple admiration of colleagues , young scientists . |
| 24 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |