Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The fundamental difference between the two routes , then , is that a pronunciation is either built up from sublexical components ( ‘ assembled ’ phonology ) or looked up as a whole ( ‘ addressed ’ phonology ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They found themselves in a long corridor with one glass wall that looked out into a bright , modern , open-plan and spacious area . |
| 9 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 10 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 11 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 12 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
| 13 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 14 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 15 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 16 | He put down his pocket Bible and looked around with a certain grim satisfaction . |
| 17 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
| 18 | Kenne gulped , and looked around for a way out . |
| 19 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 20 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
| 22 | He sat down in the deck chair , loosened his collar and tie , then lay back and looked up into the dark coolness of the oak branches . |
| 23 | She collapsed on the floor , among all the rubbish , laughed herself out to silence , and looked up into the attic , to see the torchlight shining there . |
| 24 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
| 25 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |
| 26 | He stepped away from the letter box and looked up towards the window . |
| 27 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 28 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 29 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 30 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |