Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sideboards were prized ( if you could grow them ) & real mutton chops appeared & looked very mean — although they were never in or out of fashion as such — just optional all the way through . |
| 2 | If we are face to face with the person sending the message , then we notice what they are doing with their face , eyes , and body while speaking : maybe they smiled , or shook their fist , or looked away . |
| 3 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 4 | Usually dancers are leered at or looked down on whenever they mention their job , so why are Tiller Girls different ? |
| 5 | He had not kissed her or looked back , just sprinted across the snow . |
| 6 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 7 | Corporate finance that looked right under the old rules can look drastically wrong if the rules change |
| 8 | With them was a tall , dark-skinned man in an expensive suit that looked oddly out of place among the wheelbarrows and pitchforks of a small stable . |
| 9 | In the sixteen months between Britain 's application and its rejection by de Gaulle , a body of opinion was created in Whitehall and amongst the electorate that looked forward to Britain becoming more closely linked to Europe for a variety of reasons ; one of which was to reduce America 's dominance in the West 's military affairs . |
| 10 | And that looked pretty funny like and it fell down a couple of days ago and maybe a pretty while afore that I du n no . |
| 11 | On the way to Whitby and the first hostel , we turned off at Skinningrove , a steel-producing town that looked exactly like a slice of Newcastle 's backstreets scooped up and set down on the rugged coastline . |
| 12 | Of course he picked all those that looked most like the wretched bowl of fruit . |
| 13 | The drawing-room was full of rugs that looked upsettingly as if they had been made from earlier Afghans . |
| 14 | Then , with a spasm that looked unpleasantly organic , the ceiling convulsed — and the hole was even smaller . |
| 15 | Only bad light and rain , which prevented play in the final session , saved the tourists from total embarrassment after Allan Border 's decision to bat gave the Kiwi bowlers the chance to exploit movement on an Eden Park wicket that looked deceptively flat . |
| 16 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 17 | The tall black man who had emerged from the Lincoln was dressed in a dark blue three-piece suit that looked incongruously heavy for such a hot day . |
| 18 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 19 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 20 | With a happy smile on her extraordinarily beautiful face , and the memory of a man with blue eyes in her mind , she wandered back to where she had left her car , and Ellie being Ellie , who was totally incapable off passing anything that looked even remotely interesting , it was another hour before she finally got to it . |
| 21 | The rooms were small , warm and smelt damp , filled with brightly varnished furniture that looked well made but nevertheless home-made . |
| 22 | It had n't left the ice : an ugly skinny sort of structure that looked decidedly unsuitable for flying . |
| 23 | So I walked down the steep corridor to the huts that looked outwardly like the huts of both my TV hospital and the real one forty years ago . |
| 24 | But he was n't prepared for the shock of seeing those eyes , his daughter 's eyes of startling green flecked with gold , that looked out from Simon 's face . |
| 25 | It was a large room with windows that looked out on grounds . |
| 26 | He had to move slowly , carefully on the stairs because , for a brief moment , he was in full sight of the soldiers through the big plate glass window that looked out onto the narrow quay . |
| 27 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 28 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 29 | He paused in the doorway , because it was rare to see the High Queen without at least a dozen courtiers ; certainly he had never seen the Sun Chamber like this , bathed in the glow from the dying day , alive with the strong , pure magic of the Purple Hour , the huge crystal windows that looked out over all Ireland ablaze with light . |
| 30 | There the Shah worked in a large salon that looked out through tall windows on to the city below . |