Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Corporate finance that looked right under the old rules can look drastically wrong if the rules change |
| 3 | Of course he picked all those that looked most like the wretched bowl of fruit . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She opened her eyes and looked straight into the beautiful face of the Italian . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He sat up gingerly and looked slowly around the cell . |
| 15 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 16 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 17 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
| 18 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 19 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 20 | When the coffee was done , he turned towards Oliver and looked closely at the boy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He sounded rather depressed , and looked sadly into the fire . |
| 23 | Mr Crumwallis jumped , and looked nervously at the instrument . |
| 24 | In a corner of the Salon Imperial of the Hotel Intercontinental , Paris , Harriet Varna braced her back against a statuesque pillar and looked steadily into the viewfinder of her camera , concentrating on her subjects so fiercely that she was almost oblivious to the electric atmosphere that surrounded her , bouncing off the Viennese décor and the sumptuous rococo ceiling along with the heat and the light as the models of the House of Saint Laurent moved gracefully along the hundred yards of catwalk to display the new season 's couture collection . |
| 25 | Charles let a note of panic creep into Bill Holroyd 's voice and looked anxiously around the room . |
| 26 | He abandoned this line of observation and looked carefully at the man inside the suit . |
| 27 | The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row . |
| 28 | Miss Honey paused and looked carefully at the child . |
| 29 | As the sun sank lower and touched the edge of the cloudbelt on the horizon , Hazel came out from under the branches and looked carefully round the lower slope . |
| 30 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |