Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | look at the person or look away |
| 2 | ‘ I mean it , ’ Alina said , her gaze so searching now that Amis could n't break contact or look away . |
| 3 | Generally speaking they are the ones who do not wear suits — or look rather uncomfortable when they do . |
| 4 | Well our research has shown that something like eighty percent of all small business 's do n't undertake any formal training within their first three years of operation and more than sixty percent do not do any formal business planning or look further ahead than one month from today . |
| 5 | Will they stand up to family wear and tear or look too sturdy for dinner parties ? |
| 6 | You can either stand on them , or look very stupid on the stage . |
| 7 | Once a young killer has attacked one individual with this wing pattern , it will not only avoid other members of that species but also members of other species that look superficially like it . |
| 8 | This means that the baggy peasant look will be widely seen again : roomy , comfy clothes that look best when rumpled . |
| 9 | As shown in Figure 2 , the CEO sets strategic goals that look ahead as far as 25 years and manages executive vice-presidents ( EVPs ) with responsibility for 12- to 15-year development programs . |
| 10 | I had seen that look somewhere before , and memory suggested two pictures : one was from an old history book and showed Marie Antoinette on her way to the guillotine — ‘ The Queen went forth , stately and calm ’ ; , the other ( ‘ Tales from over the Border ’ ) showed a beautiful girl withdrawing modestly while a Highland chief petitioned her father for her hand in marriage . |
| 11 | And now , this week , come two more Euro developments that look distinctly unappetising . |
| 12 | my uncle 's gone oh fuck off like this and he started to put his fork in again and we goes , my dad goes well that look distinctly like a three inch mortar shell so I would n't put any more in there if , I would n't put your fucking fork 's in there again if I was you , they had to get the bomb squad out , they diffused it , they found about five fucking mortar bombs |
| 13 | A curious mix of tried-and-tested subgames that look pretty damn poor on their own , but make up a reasonably playable package . |
| 14 | Certainly bits that look pretty interesting I should imagine and a report on the end of the day with a number of er proposals and actions for er hopefully , preventing this happening again . |
| 15 | When the danger of revolution seemed to have passed he emerged with points of view that look forward to the emancipation of the working classes . |
| 16 | However , if that racing game were to be as poor as the film ( it is ) with graphics that look positively antiquated ( they do ) , you 'd expect the rating to be about 34% , would n't you ? |
| 17 | There are insects that look exactly like green leaves . |
| 18 | They are not merely abstract theory or pious statements of intent that look good posted on the staff notice board . |
| 19 | In Finland local authorities are being turned into the purchasing agents — with a range of powers and responsibilities that look remarkably similar to those being assigned to the district health authorities under the Tory reforms . |
| 20 | Even more streamlined for marine life were the ichthyosaurs ( 'fish lizards ' ) , which , as their name implies , include species that look remarkably fish-like , although perhaps the better analogy would be with the porpoises , a group of mammals that ‘ returned to the sea ’ , and may fill a similar role in modern seas to that of the ichthyosaurs in the Jurassic . |
| 21 | Oh dear , you 're giving me that look again . |
| 22 | He is also experienced in putting the family — especially children — at their ease , so you 'll get pictures that look completely natural . |
| 23 | Now going back into the Hebrew scriptures , you 'll find there that this sort of staying awake counsel , an idea was there long before the days of Jesus and the Apostles and people 's lives were involved in its state , even in those days , let's just let us have a look at one , Isaiah forty two eighteen to twenty now this terms it slightly different , but when you look at it and analyze it , you realize he 's talking about exactly the same thing , it 's regarding the nation of Israel who turned away from Jehovah , they were n't doing what they should be doing , or should 've been doing as he 's pleading with them look there , that look here , here you deaf ones , well we know the nation of Israel were n't all physically deaf , they were like we are , perhaps had a few deaf individuals amongst them , but |
| 24 | She usually assumed that look just before he succeeded in reducing her to tears . |
| 25 | Now you can make that look even smarter by making a second white line on the outside . |
| 26 | It is not a tuck stitch at all , but the name comes from the same term used in dressmaking , where woven fabric is stitched , or tucked , into ridges that look much like this fabric . |
| 27 | Bart Kahn 's numbers and technical detail appear to have traded on the well known human failing of putting undue faith in well presented figures that look convincingly precise . |
| 28 | Macaulay found The Prelude ‘ to the last degree Jacobinical , indeed Socialist ’ : the linking of words that look far back into the past and equally far forward into the future shows that from the point of view of the Whig benches at any rate , Wordsworth 's politics were lamentably consistent . |
| 29 | As Moore looked into those eyes , he realized that he had seen that look before . |
| 30 | ‘ Of course , we need to get rid of the shots that look obviously posed . ’ |