Example sentences of "the [adv] [pron] look [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But the longer she looked at herself the more she knew that she was going to buy this hat , or perhaps these two hats , and this beautiful , beautiful outfit . |
| 2 | Yet the more we look at our surroundings , the more we find that they are in many ways far above the average . |
| 3 | The more we look at the behaviour of insects , birds , mammals , and man , the more we see a continuum of complexity rather than any difference in kind that might separate the intellectual Valhalla of our species from the apparently mindless computations of insects . |
| 4 | But the foundations for this belief were like the Cheshire Cat in Alice of Wonderland ; the more one looked at them , the less substance they seemed to have . |
| 5 | ‘ Look how much better the Lilliputians do it ’ , is a tempting cry , but the more one looks into it the more one finds that the Lilliputians are n't a fair comparison with us : they have n't got our antiquated industries … our legal system ; and they are less than six inches tall . |
| 6 | The more one looks at it , the more interesting this field becomes , both in its applications and in its wider implications for medicine as a whole . |
| 7 | But the more one looks at the character of the prison population the more one is struck by the magnifying mirror that it holds up to the inequalities of our society . |
| 8 | The more she looked at the photographs in Fen 's cabin , the less she liked the look of his girlfriend . |
| 9 | And yet perhaps not , because the more you looked at Mosse the odder he became . |
| 10 | The more he looked at her , the more he knew he had seen her before . |
| 11 | The more I looked at different societies , the more I saw the little traps lurking in the small print … |
| 12 | With Hugo , I was quite definitely the performance : Stef , the more I looked at her , obviously a mere rehearsal . |
| 13 | The more I looked into it the more the paintings seemed to go beyond simple unitary ideas of authorship and meaning . |
| 14 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 15 | ‘ You know , Schatzie , the more I look at you , the more you remind me of a certain Titian . |
| 16 | In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies . |