Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Corporate finance that looked right under the old rules can look drastically wrong if the rules change |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Of course he picked all those that looked most like the wretched bowl of fruit . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 12 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 13 | At about 10,000ft ( 3300m ) we broke out of the trees into an area of grassland that looked vaguely like a Scottish moor and decided to camp for the night . |
| 14 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 15 | Elinor had woken up and was trying on a black dress that looked more like a kind of solo tent than anything else . |
| 16 | It was a smashing exhibition , that looked more like the charge in a one-dayer than the eighth of 15 available sessions in a Test . |
| 17 | He looked up and saw the vicar carrying a book that looked more like an illustrated part work from W. H. Smith 's than Holy Writ . |
| 18 | I did n't know the man who stepped out and looked straight at the door which the old buffer porter had managed to close . |
| 19 | She opened her eyes and looked straight into the beautiful face of the Italian . |
| 20 | He sat back with a satisfied grin and looked contently around the open-plan hygienic nonentity of his executive sitting room in his executive house on an executive estate in Pangbourne . |
| 21 | He sat up gingerly and looked slowly around the cell . |
| 22 | As he lunged for her she threw herself out of the way and looked desperately for a way out . |
| 23 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 24 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 25 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
| 26 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 27 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 28 | When the coffee was done , he turned towards Oliver and looked closely at the boy . |
| 29 | Cadfael kneeled behind the dead man 's shoulders , and looked closely at the indented wound , in which white points of bone showed in the centre of the encrusted blood . |
| 30 | He sounded rather depressed , and looked sadly into the fire . |