Example sentences of "[coord] looks [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A playwright will often do his best to supply this non-lexical information by telling the reader that the character shrugs , winks , or looks heavenwards as this or that phrase is uttered . |
| 2 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 3 | He comes out into the garden and sips his tea and looks around . |
| 4 | When the cat enters the room and looks around , it notices that several people are staring at it . |
| 5 | She sticks the cigarette in her mouth and looks around for matches . |
| 6 | He stabs at the buttons three times , then wriggles over to the handset and makes muffled shouts through the gag until you cock the gun and he hears it and looks round at where you stand , next to the wall , waving the telephone 's wall-plug . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , just disappeared , yeah , right , right , well I 'll ask Alistair , oh well uhum , I would n't hold out a lot of hope , huh , somehow , his uhum , he puts in an appearance at the summer fair for half an hour and looks round , says I think I 'll go now , , I 'll leave you to it you know , keep the children , , that 's it , is n't it , his taken our Clare in to buy a tennis racket . |
| 8 | M103 is in the same × 20 field with Delta , but is not at all easy to identify , and looks rather more like a chance aggregation of stars . |
| 9 | Marie comes behind me and looks over my shoulder . |
| 10 | McDunn sucks his teeth and looks away . |
| 11 | He folds his arms very tightly , and looks away over Howard 's shoulder . |
| 12 | Victor sighs and looks away . |
| 13 | Perry looks at me and looks away , his eyes darting everywhere . |
| 14 | He nods and looks away . |
| 15 | It turns from Proust 's text and looks outward to the language system in general ; and at the same time it represents de Man 's voice speaking from outside and intruding into Proust 's text . |
| 16 | Now that he knows it 's himself he ca n't help noticing the slightly ridiculous and embarrassing qualities — the way the young man frowns importantly as he talks about his job , and waves his arms about when he gets stuck for words ; and the way he smiles insincerely at Howard from time to time , and looks straight into his eyes in an effort to demonstrate that he is interested in Howard as well as himself . |
| 17 | His study Sally ( the lady sits at a table and looks straight ahead at the viewer ) possesses painterly values of real distinction . |
| 18 | Luxembourg thanks ( l-r ) Sqn Ldr R Druitt , Flt Lts P Jackson and D Mannion , F/Sgt J Dearden and Flt Lt E Billings , and looks forward to their next visit . |
| 19 | — ‘ in thought I see my past madness ’ ; these two cries are from the Arnaut Daniel speech ending Purgatorio XXVI , where the poet condemned to the circle of lust prays for the hearer 's consideration and looks forward to the release from the to tortures meted out to the lustful . |
| 20 | With the points gained from round 1 , Oates now holds second in class and looks forward to round 3 at Silverstone on April 4th and 5th , supporting British Touring Cars . |
| 21 | The old rascal is still very much alive and kicking — he is 330 years old on 9 May this year — and looks forward to several more centuries of roguery yet ! |
| 22 | In it , Elvis tells ‘ Dear Liz ’ how much he appreciates receiving her letters and looks forward to seeing her during a trip she planned to America in December . |
| 23 | It sold more $500,000-plus machines in fourth quarter 1992 than the three previous quarters combined and looks forward to being able to use Pentium in its machines , because it says the new Intel Corp chip will reduce the gap between its machines and RISC in batch processing work . |
| 24 | TWA 's marketing senior vice president , Bob Cozzi , said : ‘ TWA has served Great Britain for more than 40 years and looks forward to providing the only service by a major U.S. carrier to Stansted . |
| 25 | There is no doubt she feels that she has paid a high price for her royal life and looks forward to the day when she can spend a weekend in Paris or , as she says , ‘ I can run along a beach without a policeman following me ’ . |
| 26 | He knows that the end of his life is near , but he has no fear of death , and looks forward to gaining his place in heaven . |
| 27 | His tough character keeps him in the house and looks forward to the awaiting adventure . |
| 28 | who recently received the British Institute of NDT Accreditation certificate on behalf of NDT Eagle , is delighted to have on board and looks forward to providing a unique service to customers , ‘ The training centre has been fully equipped to cover a variety of courses as well as NDT including Painting Inspection [ BGAS ] , Welding Inspection [ CSWIP ] , NDT Appreciation and Magnetic Flux Leakage . |
| 29 | The Council has welcomed the Minister 's positive response and looks forward to hearing the results of the consultation exercise in due course . |
| 30 | The centre has been a great success since opening its doors a year ago and looks forward to celebrating many more birthdays . |