Example sentences of "in [noun sg] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frye was turning slowly in horror to look behind him , at the reception wall . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , the uniforms are out in force looking for the Butler girl . |
| 3 | What was to have been a lesson in geography looks like turning into a lesson in harsh economics . |
| 4 | But tell me … who did you have in mind to look after the Project ? |
| 5 | Looking for them was in effect looking for Adam Boteler , who alone had been marked and recognised ; and Adam had orders to remain out of sight in Castell Coch until the second attempt was ready to be launched . |
| 6 | POLICE are being paid thousands of pounds in overtime to look after convicted prisoners housed in North-East police stations . |
| 7 | In work looking at the labour markets of Los Angeles and New York , Sassen ( 1989 ) has argued that economic growth creates both wealth and poverty . |
| 8 | This exercise would be especially useful if it was used in work looking at the development of castles , from motte and bailey , to stone keep , to sophisticated fortress . |
| 9 | But Scarlet was too far gone in disenchantment to look for a bright side . |
| 10 | It will be useful in conclusion to look at some incidents which illuminate the way in which symbolism operates in the religion . |
| 11 | The girl 's eyes did not at first stray in my direction so I was able in safety to look at her , to examine her , for quite some time . |
| 12 | This is , I 've got my from school , it says , I was shopping in town looking at some clothes when , suddenly I got pulled back from one of the , the changing room . |
| 13 | Plumage pinkish-cinnamon ; tail and rounded wings strongly barred black and white so that in flight looks like huge round-winged black and white moth . |
| 14 | The study of society would be a chair-bound discipline indeed if its practitioners did not move about in society looking for ideas . |
| 15 | And you and I in our journey in life looking for what we could get , hoping to make it we 've now been made joint heirs with Jesus Christ entering into his inheritance . |
| 16 | Each in turn looked to others in the audience to help enforce it . |
| 17 | Secondly , it is well known that the impact of the rediscovery of poverty in the 1880s helped to bring about a much more complex analysis of poverty and its causes , which in turn looked toward the State to begin to solve the problem . |
| 18 | Marian in turn looked at Hugh . |
| 19 | But the inhabitant of this area in turn looks to the ‘ Promised Land ’ beyond , to its residential hotels , its apartment-house region , its ‘ satellite loops and its ‘ bright light ’ areas . |
| 20 | Besides , with this creed I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime , I can so sincerely forgive the first , while I abhor the last with this creed revenge never worries my heart , degradation never too deeply disgusts me , injustice never crushes me too low , I live in calm looking to the end . |
| 21 | Well forgive me , the , the reason for that is , it was explained at the time if one 's going to defend the decision of where you 're going to put your roads , then you 've got in reality look at all them options ridiculous some they will be , whether they dig tunnels under the Orwell or knocking down Wordsworth Road I mean it 's all got to be looked at . |
| 22 | The significant difference was that by the 1750s this speculation in land looked like making good sense . |
| 23 | Law 's in possession looks for Colin Moore in the middle , hand ball . |
| 24 | The driver 's cab reminded me of the bridge ofa ship and , as in mid-ocean looking into infinity , I could almost make out the curve in the surface of the earth . |
| 25 | LENNOX LEWIS against Frank Bruno Britain 's biggest and richest fight in history looks like being finalised in New York later this month . |
| 26 | LENNOX LEWIS against Frank Bruno Britain 's biggest and richest fight in history looks like being finalised in New York later this month . |
| 27 | To give up reason for revelation , he argued , is ‘ like putting out one 's eyes in order to look through a telescope ’ . |
| 28 | If he does … choose to leave his existing employment before the last minute in order to look for a new job before the rush of others competing with him comes , then that is up to him . |
| 29 | However , as a sociologist , I was interested in observing routine cases over a period of time in order to look for regular and recurring patterns of action and interaction that might allow certain generalisations to be made . |
| 30 | There are times when it is important to detach an action or an attitude in order to look at the mechanics of it . |