Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Megan looks up but does not move . |
| 3 | If the prey looks up and stares straight at the lion or tiger , the big cat looks sheepishly away as if suddenly indifferent to the whole business of predation . |
| 4 | He looks out and comes back quickly . |
| 5 | As well as looking up and looking in , the leader needs to look out . |
| 6 | Looking up and looking down . |
| 7 | They were photographic enlargements , head-and-shoulders portraits , all of the same girl , photographed in profile ; looking up and looking down , and seen from the right and from the left . |
| 8 | Looking back and sorting out are essential if we are not to experience the pantomime dame 's discomfort . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a trick of memory , looking back and thinking maybe things were n't that bad , but of course , if you concentrate , you realize they were . |
| 10 | Other parts of the book deal with the last things on a global scale , both looking back and looking forward . |
| 11 | Hennessy was looking around and trying not to seem too pleased with himself . |
| 12 | I might start looking round and thinking more about the educational side . |
| 13 | It is more difficult for man to look up than to look down . |
| 14 | because if anybody 's got a query , well like well when was it paid somebody 's gon na have to look up and scroll back and |
| 15 | shut up , no sit down look up and shut up . |
| 16 | The students who have been writing everything down now look up and smile wryly at Robyn Penrose , like victims of a successful hoax . |
| 17 | It 's funny to look back and think how much my mum enjoyed having the ducks around — she encouraged them as much as I did . |
| 18 | It is good psychologically to look back and see just how much you have improved both in terms of strength and physique . |
| 19 | It seems extraordinary now to look back and remember how we improvised as we did during the war . |
| 20 | ‘ We can all look back and remember how Amstrad took hi-fi to the mass market , how it removed the mystique from the computer and exploded the market . ’ |
| 21 | But like every artist , one can always look back and see where things could have been improved . |
| 22 | But I often look back and think well if was the girls who insisted that it 's time mum had a proper automatic washing machine |
| 23 | In the Science books , children are encouraged to look around and observe how things work . |
| 24 | From my present perspective twenty years on ( whether grown up or not ) , it is interesting to look around and see how far the same comment would be appropriate today . |
| 25 | The curious thing about industry is that if we think for ten minutes and draw a picture of the kind of organization we would least like to work in , and hence the one where we are least likely to be effective , we often look about and see just such an environment around us . |
| 26 | Dot looked down and saw only the tussocky grass and a flat square stone . |
| 27 | Simon looked down and laughed out loud . |
| 28 | She had admonished him before they left the hotel to drink no more than one glass , and his brother , Chuck , who was sipping his own wine confidently without the restraint of any such embargo , looked down and laughed good-naturedly at his indecision . |
| 29 | At the end , he looked down and called out to Lucie , ‘ You there ! |
| 30 | He looked over and winked back . |