Example sentences of "look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Gujerati community is fully aware of cases like that of Mrs X. Scandals such as hers are everybody 's business , but while in India or East Africa such situations would not have been tolerated , and sons would be forced to take their mothers back , in Britain the community looks on in fascinated horror but does nothing . |
| 2 | One of the WRAC Weapons Instructors looks on as the weapons are handed in at the armoury . |
| 3 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
| 4 | Dave Swindlehurst looks on . |
| 5 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 6 | Cod and ‘ ticks ' for Tony Gray as Gandolph the cat looks on . |
| 7 | And , put simply , followers of Christ exist for Christ , to please him , as he ‘ looks on ’ ; for whatever we do in word or deed , we are to do for the honour of Jesus Christ the Lord . |
| 8 | As Gord looks on incredulously , Paul proclaims , ‘ Oh yes , I read the NME every week . ’ |
| 9 | With engine running and the faithful mechanic looking on , St George on his white charger within a protective halo of glory looks on ! |
| 10 | Her diving buddy looks on |
| 11 | Here , Kendo ( on the right ) , an adult male , is doing the cracking , while Gitane waits her turn , and her five-year-old daughter Goyave looks on — and learns . |
| 12 | Sue 's middle-aged partner , Alan , looks on slightly miffed , so Samantha starts necking him . |
| 13 | THE BEGINNING OF THE END Lord Young looks on as Paul Reichmann drives the first pile at Canary Wharf in 1987 . |
| 14 | McDunn looks on sympathetically . |
| 15 | The boy always having adventures and escapades while the girl looks on admiringly , tells him to be careful or stays to play with dolls , is by no means automatically true of the day-to-day play activities of young children . |
| 16 | In the meantime , Fielding tells me , Mother Nature looks on and taps her foot and clicks her tongue . |
| 17 | The surgeon is wearing a funnel on his head , the woman a book on hers , where they can not be used , and the monk looks on with indifference . |
| 18 | while my daughter looks on , |
| 19 | The Editor , Magnus Linklater , unveils the nameplate on The Scotsman loco as InterCity 's Chris Green , left , looks on |
| 20 | DOUG MILLS/AP John Major looks on as Bill Clinton answers a reporter 's question at the White House |
| 21 | Now when she catches the odd episode on TV , Eithne looks on as Chrissie is referred to by her remaining soap family members . |
| 22 | Our first Vice chancellor Tom Cottrell looks on as Lord Robbins , then chancellor , presented the University 's first Undergraduate Degree in Pathfoot Dining Hall in 1970 . |
| 23 | Pictured above our Publicity Committee Chairman , Hilda Lodge , looks on as Elsie present a cheque to Peter Allsop , local Chairman of the Arthritis & Rheumatism Council . |
| 24 | and he , he just goes around thumping , kicking and , and going berserk during drama and the teacher just looks on and says calm down and I mean in view of the fact I 've written to the school and complained about , but you 'd think they would be keeping an eye and he hates drama so much and it , he 's got drama tomorrow , if he has any trouble tomorrow morning I 'm not sending him tomorrow afternoon I 'm gon na start keeping him home and if they ask why I 'm gon na say because you ca n't control your classes and you wo n't want to now |
| 25 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 26 | It was probably effective the first time , but now it is looked on as a desperate move , a last ditch attempt to gain attention . |
| 27 | Short- hold and assured tenancies aimed at enticing owners to let empty homes are looked on with suspicion and disdain . |
| 28 | Young enthusiasts drove across the border to join the freedom fighters who had appealed to the world to help , but the world in general looked on in anguished impotence as the rebels were extinguished . |
| 29 | It would not be eaten — she had not the faintest illusion of that — but it would be looked on and smiled over and would bring back happy memories and it was all she could think of to signify her reborn affection . |
| 30 | As in so many things , the ways of the Victorians , while looked on with horror in late twentieth-century England , have survived in America ; unashamed fervour in holding and expressing religious and patriotic beliefs which easily blend into one another is but one example . |