I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a brief look
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He gave her a brief look.
a lived-in look/feel
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The most fashionable jeans this winter have a lived-in look.
a look of contempt
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He gave her a look of contempt that made her want to hit him.
a look of disappointment
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She didn't attempt to hide the look of disappointment on her face.
a look of hate
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He gave me a look of pure hate as I entered the room.
a look of joy
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There was a look of joy on their faces.
a look/expression on sb’s face
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She had a rather surprised look on her face.
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I could tell by the look on Dan’s face that he was disappointed.
a nervous look/glance
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Lucy swallowed as she sent him a nervous glance.
a nod/smile/glance/look of approval
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‘You’ve thought of everything,’ she said with a smile of approval.
a quizzical look/expression/smile
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He sat and watched her, a quizzical look on his face.
a smile/sigh/look of satisfaction
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He allowed himself a little smile of satisfaction.
a warning look/glance
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She gave me a warning look, but I carried on.
a worried expression/look
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John came in with a worried look on his face.
absent look
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The dull, absent look on her face implied boredom.
an amused smile/look/expression etc
black look
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Denise gave me a black look .
blank face/look/expression/eyes
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Zoe looked at me with a blank expression.
cast a look/glance at sb/sth
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She cast an anguished look at Guy.
cast sb a glance/look
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The young tramp cast him a wary glance.
cool look
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Luke gave her a cool look .
curious look/glance
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Her shouting attracted some curious glances from other people in the restaurant.
cursory glance/look
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Even a cursory glance at the figures will tell you that sales are down.
dazed look/expression etc
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Her face was very pale and she wore a dazed expression.
despairing cry/look/sigh etc
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She gave me a last despairing look.
earnest expression/look/voice etc
facing/looking/spreading etc outwards
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Stand with your elbows pointing outwards.
feel/look/sound offended
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Stella was beginning to feel a little offended.
filthy look
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She gave him a filthy look .
flinty look/stare
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Duvall gave him a flinty stare.
fresh look
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Let’s take a fresh look at the problem.
frosty stare/look/tone
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He gave me a frosty stare.
furtive glances/looks
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Chris kept stealing furtive glances at me.
go through/look through/search through drawers (= try to find something by looking in drawers )
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I've been through all my drawers and I can't find it.
good looks
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his natural good looks
have a look/walk/sleep/talk/think etc
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We were just having a look around.
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Are you going to have a swim?
incredulous look/expression/voice etc
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She shot him an incredulous look.
it looks like rain (= rain appears likely because there are dark clouds in the sky )
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We ate indoors because it looked like rain.
knowing look
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He gave us a knowing look .
look at a map
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She stopped the car to look at the map.
look at an option (= consider an option )
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You have to look at every option as your business develops.
look at/consider/examine an aspect
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Managers were asked to look at every aspect of their work.
look at/examine etc sth in context
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Although this does not seem to be a good result, let’s examine it in context.
look at/glance at your watch
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I looked at my watch. It was 4.30.
look at/see the menu (= read the menu )
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He looked at the menu and decided to have the salad.
look comfortable
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That sofa looks wonderfully comfortable.
look cool
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You look cool in denim.
look enthusiastic
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Your husband doesn’t look too enthusiastic about the idea.
look expensive
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All of her clothes look very expensive.
look for an excuse
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I began to look for excuses to avoid seeing him.
look for employment ( also seek employment formal )
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My son had to leave the farm and seek employment elsewhere.
look for information ( also seek information formal )
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Journalists going to the building to seek information were denied entry.
look for inspiration ( also seek inspiration formal )
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I sought inspiration in medieval carvings.
look for work ( also seek work formal )
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Young people come to town looking for work.
look for/hunt for clues
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Investigators descended on the crime scene hunting for clues.
look for/search for a bargain
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She began looking for bargains at car boot sales.
look for/search for evidence
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The investigation will look for evidence of financial mismanagement.
look forward to hearing from you (= hope to receive news from you )
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I look forward to hearing from you .
look forward
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I felt that at last I could begin to look forward .
look green about/around the gills (= look pale and ill )
look ill
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He looked rather ill when I saw him.
look inconspicuous
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She stood by the wall, trying to look inconspicuous .
look lovely
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You look lovely in that dress.
look of horror
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You should have seen the look of horror on his face.
look sb up and down (= look at someone in order to judge their appearance or character )
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Maisie looked her rival up and down with a critical eye.
look scared
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What’s the matter? You look scared.
look sth up in a dictionary
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If you don’t understand the meaning of a word, look it up in a dictionary.
look through a book (= look at the pages quickly )
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I looked through the book until I found the right section.
look to sb for approval
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They all admired Gordon and looked to him for approval.
look to the future (= think about or plan for the future )
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She could now look to the future with confidence.
look unhappy
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Both his parents looked very unhappy.
look up a word (= try to find it in a book )
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I looked the word up in my dictionary.
look up at the stars
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I had spent a lot of time looking up at the stars as a kid.
look worried
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Don’t look so worried! It’ll be fine.
looked doubtful
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‘Everything’s going to be all right, you’ll see.’ Jenny looked doubtful .
looked enchanting
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The child looked enchanting in a pale blue dress.
looked glum
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Anna looked glum .
looked in...mirror
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When I looked in the mirror I couldn’t believe it. I looked fantastic!
looked troubled
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Benson looked troubled when he heard the news.
looked upon with disfavour
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The job creation programme is looked upon with disfavour by the local community.
looked...sheepish
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Sam looked a bit sheepish.
look/feel foolish
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He’d been made to look foolish.
look/feel your age (= look or feel as old as you really are )
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The singer is 46, but she doesn’t look her age at all.
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I keep getting aches in my legs and I’m starting to feel my age.
look/gaze longingly at sb/sth
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He looked longingly at the tray of cakes.
look/gaze/stare out of the window
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Mom stared out of the window at the road.
look/glance at the clock
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She looked at the clock. It was eight thirty.
look/glance in a direction
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She looked in the direction that Jeremy was pointing.
look/glance over your shoulder (= look behind you )
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He glanced over his shoulder and grinned at me.
look/go/read through your notes
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I read through my notes before the exam.
looking crestfallen
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He came back looking crestfallen .
looking dubious
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‘Are you sure you know what you are doing?’ Andy said, looking dubious .
looking glass
looking...peaked
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You’re looking a little peaked this morning.
looking...peaky
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He’s looking a bit peaky today.
looking...smart
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You’re looking very smart .
looking...well
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You’re looking very well .
look/listen/think etc carefully
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You need to think very carefully about which course you want to do.
looks every inch
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With her designer clothes and elegant hair, she looks every inch the celebrity.
looks...fetching
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Your sister looks very fetching in that dress.
looks...miserable
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Jan looks really miserable .
look/sound apologetic
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Dan came in looking very apologetic.
look/sound depressed
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Is Jo all right? She sounded a bit depressed.
look/sound familiar
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The voice on the phone sounded familiar.
look/sound nervous
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He sounded nervous and uncertain.
look/sound/feel bored
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Some of the students were starting to look bored.
look/sound/feel/taste/seem like
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The garden looked like a jungle.
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At last he felt like a real soldier.
Look...square in the eye
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Look him square in the eye and say no.
looks/seems/sounds fine
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In theory, the scheme sounds fine.
looks...shifty
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He looks a bit shifty to me.
look/taste/smell nice
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You look nice in that suit.
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Mm, something smells nice!
make...look small
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She jumped at any opportunity to make me look small .
malevolent look/stare/smile etc
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He gave her a dark, malevolent look.
mischievous smile/look etc
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Gabby looked at him with a mischievous grin.
nostalgic look
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a nostalgic look back at the 1950s
not be much to look at (= it does not look good )
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The car may not be much to look at but it’s very reliable.
piercing look
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He gave her a piercing look .
puzzled look/expression/frown etc
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Alice read the letter with a puzzled expression on her face.
sb seems/looks/appears certain to do sth
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For a while the whole project looked certain to fail.
seek/look for a solution
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The company is still seeking a solution to its financial problems.
seek/search for/look for a cure
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$3 billion a year is spent searching for a cure for cancer.
see/look into the future (= know what will happen in the future )
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I wish I could see into the future.
seem/appear/look likely
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Which candidate seems likely to win?
seem/look/appear shocked
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He glanced at his mother, who looked shocked.
seem/look/sound embarrassed
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The judge seemed embarrassed to be asking her such personal questions.
shoot sb a quick/sharp/warning etc look/glance
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‘You’re welcome to stay as long as you like.’ Michelle shot him a furious glance.
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Jack shot an anxious look at his mother.
smug expression/look/face/smile etc
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‘I knew I’d win,’ she said with a smug smile.
sound/look relieved
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Jen looked relieved to see me.
sour look/face/smile etc
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Eliza was tall and thin, with a rather sour face.
stare/gaze/look fixedly at sth
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Ann stared fixedly at the screen.
stern look/voice/expression etc
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‘Wait!’ I shouted in my sternest voice.
Take a good look
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Take a good look at it.
take/get a close look
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She moved forward to take a close look at the painting.
the future looks good/bright etc
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The future looks good for the company.
thoughtful look
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a thoughtful look
triumphant look/smile/expression etc
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a triumphant grin
troubled face/eyes/look
wild look (= she seemed a little crazy )
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There was a wild look about her .
youthful appearance/looks/complexion
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She has managed to maintain her youthful appearance.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
face
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She was already by his side before she thought of how her face and hair must look .
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How vivid and alive their faces looked .
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He was still breathing hard from his few minutes of play, but his face looked like stone.
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Light suit, short hair, spotty face , but looking in charge.
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Each time a man looked away and refused to back him up, and the panic on his face doubled.
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Her face looked big in the papers.
mirror
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It is comparable with the oddness which might visit all our outward appearances if we stopped looking in mirror .
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I looked into the mirror , my green eyes looking back out at me showing no emotion, no excitement at all.
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I looked into the little mirror for just a moment.
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I looked into the mirror , searching once again into the riddle of my face.
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I kept looking in the mirror but not, you understand, for traffic.
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He looked in the gilt mirror .
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When he had finished looking in the mirror to put in his buttonhole rose, it was time to go.
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He looks in the mirror three, no, four, no, five times.
shoulder
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Arthur looked over some one's shoulder but said nothing.
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With wet clothes clinging to her back, she looked skeletal, her shoulder blades poking up like sharp crags.
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You never know what's out there, they said, looking fearfully over their shoulders .
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Ahead, Ember turned into the tunnel-mouth, not even looking over his shoulder .
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Then the Texas native looked over his shoulder .
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Somehow, with the glasses on, she felt compelled to look back over her shoulder all the time.
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I looked over his shoulder while he consulted a little list.
window
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Thee buses were photographed with a few surprised giraffes looking in the windows .
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They were the ones standing on packing crates outside the post hospital, looking proudly through the windows into the nursery.
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One was turning the pages of an old copy of Hotel &038; Caterer, the other was looking out of the window .
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When I took my children to bed at night they would pause to look through a little knee-high window which lit the stairs.
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I whispered, looking out the window .
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It gave me the foothold I needed to pull myself up and look in at the window .
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Whenever I look out of the window , they are crouched innocently in seemingly random positions.
■ VERB
stand
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He stepped back a pace, smiling broadly as he saw the young woman who stood before him, looking slightly surprised.
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He walked Stanley to the door and stood looking into the street with a worried expression.
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Slowly, step by step, she crept along the terrace until she stood there, looking in.
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They stood there looking at each other.
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I stood looking him over for about a minute and then went round the room.
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The people standing around us looked embarrassed.
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He walked slowly over to the door, and stood looking down at her.
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Instead I stood up and looked around.
turn
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They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed.
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Even a very good marriage is not one where everyone turns and looks when you walk into the room.
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She turns to look at him.
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Gao Yang turned to look at him.
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They passed the hill, but she did not turn to look at the graveyard.
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Suddenly she turned and looked at him.
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Karr turned , looking for further assassins, then, satisfied there were none, looked down at Tolonen.
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When I reached the crest of the hill I turned to look back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Look lively!
a faraway look
a funny look
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Billie had a funny look on her face.
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I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.
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Robbie gave her a funny look, as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogical fragment of thought.
a martyred look/expression/air etc
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He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred air.
a pointed question/look/remark
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As he left the office he locked it behind him, with a pointed look at Bob.
a withering look/remark etc
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Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair.
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The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look.
appealing look/expression/voice etc
be looking over your shoulder
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I am looking over my shoulder .
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So, reading through this book, you feel as thought Alwyn is looking over your shoulder , egging you on.
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Two snub-nosed bristle-headed boys were looking over my shoulder in bright-eyed interest.
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You were looking over your shoulder waiting for the knock on the door.
be/feel/look like your old self
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After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
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Aren't you cold ?
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Come inside before you get cold .
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But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
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He was getting cold , too.
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It was getting cold in the room.
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My chips will be cold by now.
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She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
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She was afraid his skin would be cold .
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Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold .
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Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/look a picture
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
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Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
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It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
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Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
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She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
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She looked nothing like her photograph.
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The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
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The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
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This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
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He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
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In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
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I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
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And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
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Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit .
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Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
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I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit .
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It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit .
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The school made you feel like shit .
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We really do look like shit .
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You looked like shit the other night.
give sb a dirty look
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Amy kept crying, and everybody was giving us dirty looks.
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Frank turned round and gave me a really dirty look.
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My aunt's friends always used to give me dirty looks when I brought my kids over, because they knew I wasn't married.
glazed look/eyes/expression etc
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But he still remembered the hidden yawns, the glazed looks and drooping eyelids.
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Has anyone noticed that Nicolas Cage has gotten a sort of stoned-out, glazed look to him of late?
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He did not acknowledge Conroy, but hurried on down with that glazed look of some one already encased in their next entrance.
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Instead, you held your head high and let a glazed look mask your eyes.
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The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes.
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They had the distended bellies and glazed eyes of famine.
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With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance.
hangdog expression/look
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He has his father's long face, hangdog expression and lank fair hair.
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Ross was still sporting his hangdog look.
haunted expression/look
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A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
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It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
injured look/expression etc
just think/imagine/look
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Anyway, I just thought I'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point.
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I just think an organization like this should be hearing how the board thinks.
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I just thought something that was see through maybe on that wall would.
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I get a headache just looking at a cookbook.
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I promised myself I was just looking.
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I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
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Similarly, you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here.
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We just thought - obviously very stupidly - that you might be working on something together.
level voice/look/gaze
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Her eyes were a washed-out blue with a level gaze.
like looking for a needle in a haystack
look a fright
look askance (at sb/sth)
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It often looked askance at the mainland.
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No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
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Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
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The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
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Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.
look daggers at sb
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The lady behind the counter looked daggers at me.
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Their relationship is not free and easy but at least Red is no longer looking daggers at her.
look kindly on sb/sth
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But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
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No skimping, and I'd look kindly on it if you'd provide her with petticoats.
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Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.
look like a drowned rat
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Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats .
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You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look on the bright side
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Always look on the bright side of life.
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Another is that they have an in-built bias towards optimism, always looking on the bright side of life.
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But look on the bright side: we've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool, too.
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By the time supper rolls around, he has even begun to look on the bright side.
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Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side.
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She would look on the bright side.
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Still; look on the bright side: they'd have to order another one.
look out for number one
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We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
look rough
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It looks rough and unfinished: the corpses probably stir underground during the night.
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Lightly trim the grass using a sharp mower if the surface is looking rough , but do not cut it short.
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She did look ill, and Tippy looked rough at the best of times.
look sharp
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Although the costumes look sharp , the set is bare-bones and nondescript.
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Come on, boys, look sharp .
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He's been training hard and looks sharp .
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Hobert looked sharp , completing 10 of 13 passes.
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So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come.
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They will look sharp for signs of senility and increasing pain-will they perhaps even hope for them?
look the part
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Certainly with his long, jet-black, forked beard, he looked the part .
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Clarke played four of the five tests this season at inside centre without quite looking the part .
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It was, she discovered, easier to look the part than to feel it.
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Morris's contribution to this match is unlikely to find much space in Wisden, but he already looks the part .
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Not that he looked the part .
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The Big Hurt already looks the part of a legendary slugger.
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This has recently reached Volume 4 and now really looks the part .
look to your laurels
look/feel awful
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You look awful - what's wrong?
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Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
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For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful .
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He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful .
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I felt awful , ill, all beaten up.
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In fact she felt awful , nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
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Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful , stunk and tasted lousy?
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The next morning I felt awful .
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Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful .
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
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Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly .
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If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
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Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
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She was sober now but she felt ghastly .
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They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
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A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
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Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
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Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
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It makes him feel small and worthless.
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No to make me look small , that's her object!
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Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
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She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
look/search high and low
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We looked high and low for Sandy but couldn't find her.
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He had searched high and low for these.
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Throughout her letters, Clappe was searching high and low for a room of her own.
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You say you have looked high and low for new building sites but let me tell you there are some.
look/stare/gaze into space
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He was just gazing into space .
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In his study, Bernard Quex stared into space , pen motionless over his notepad.
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Mrs Frizzell gazed into space and Mrs Murphy smoothed back errant curls from her damp forehead.
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Mrs James caught me staring into space twice even though the girl sitting next to me had nudged me in time.
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My companion remained oblivious to the sights, staring into space and frowning.
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Rachel screamed and woke up, drenched with sweat, shaking, staring into space .
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Sometimes the door was ajar and I would see her sitting absolutely still, staring into space , not reading at all.
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Usually, after a performance I come home and stare into space .
look/work a treat
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As usual, she looked a treat .
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Don't he look a treat !
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I bet it works a treat .
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I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat .
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I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
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It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
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Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
meaningful look/glance/smile etc
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All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
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Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
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But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance.
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Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
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They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
murderous look/expression/glare etc
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She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.
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She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
never/don't look a gift horse in the mouth
not give sth a second glance/look
pained expression/look/voice etc
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As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks.
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He assumed a pained expression and averted his eyes.
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He finally looked at Cantor, a pained expression on his face.
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His mouth was set in a prim, pained expression of disapproval.
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Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.
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Rex made with the crossed eyes and suitably pained expression.
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The ubiquitous man with the pained expression vanishes.
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You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson's eyes, as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple.
penetrating look/eyes/gaze etc
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Although most people would have stared at his nose Adam was more struck by his penetrating eyes.
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He was from Fukien province, was missionary-trained, and had bright, penetrating eyes.
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Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
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Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
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Take a long hard, and penetrating look into the way you handle your life and the pattern of your partnerships in general.
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The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
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They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
pitying look/smile/glance
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The other smiled at him a pitying smile.
searching look/glance/gaze
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Crouched down beside it, Delaney took another searching glance behind him, at the lifeless, cluttered room.
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Guy led Chalon back on to the road, casting another searching glance up at Isabel's closed face.
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Soul searching Look no further for a hot new boy band.
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The searching gaze was too much for Denis.
sidelong look/glance
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Afterwards, in the changing room, everyone shoots sidelong glances at Lil.
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But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes.
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I cast a sidelong glance, to see if she's noticed.
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Pleased faces, sidelong glances seeking agreement.
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She cast a sidelong glance at Fen.
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
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After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
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Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
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In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
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Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
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Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
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Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
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The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
vacant expression/look/stare etc
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Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
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But an oddly vacant look had come over Cinzia's features.
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Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare.
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He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.
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He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened.
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However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.
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The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Come on, it's time to go," he said, looking at his watch.
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"You were a hippie?" she asked, looking at her father in disbelief.
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Look at me when I'm talking to you.
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Look , I'm very serious about this.
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Look , there are some swans on the river.
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Did you look under the bed?
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Do these jeans make me look fat?
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Doesn't she look beautiful!
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I'm glad you've shaved off that beard. It makes you look ten years younger!
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I've looked everywhere, but I can't find my gloves.
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I always look through the peephole before I open the door for anyone.
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If you look closely, you can see ducks at the edge of the lake.
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It looks as if we are going to need more help.
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She's really pretty - she looks like a model.
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That book looks interesting.
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That coat looks nice and warm. Where did you get it?
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The burglar was holding what looked like a shotgun.
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The cake didn't look very good, but it tasted all right.
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The teacher stopped and looked around to see if there were any questions.
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Tom looked out the window over the dry, barren landscape.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He sent one of his aides to California to ask Wilson to be chairman of the committee and to look him over.
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He took his seat in coach, and after an hour or so began to look for them.
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He was also looking for ways to satisfy the recurrent Treasury demands for economy.
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It looks dumb now, and it will look a lot dumber later.
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New buildings look good, but often money is better spent on people.
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Now some of them look unkempt, neglected, despite the fine new houses and gardens which are springing up.
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The permed young man and the woman in red exchanged glances, both looking quite abashed.
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When she looked back at the road, the red saloon was coming towards her.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Take a close look at your pension position.
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Take a closer look at the warning labels surrounding you on a daily basis.
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Let's have a closer look at the factors involved in the blades striking the tailboom.
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Instead of razing it, commissioners asked for a closer look at its remodeling cost.
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She finally decided that she would go down to the garden and take a closer look .
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They passed a hundred yards away and never so much as changed course to take a closer look .
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My curiosity had been piqued, so after the service I slipped up to the band area to take a closer look .
fresh
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IntelliDraw takes a fresh look at the way people work with images.
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It was time to take a fresh look .
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You can achieve the freshest look with minimum make-up.
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Other revelations came from taking a fresh look at the data.
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He'd poked at the soil with a hoe to give it a fresh look .
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You can choose from either the graceful resilience of hardwood or the fresh , flawless look of uPVC.
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The new Community Care Act should prompt a fresh look at services for carers and those they look after.
good
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Step out and have a good look around.
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With his dark good looks and meticulous personal style, he made a lasting, if rather forbidding impression on lay people.
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If one liked that uncompromisingly masculine type of good looks , she thought, trying to tell herself she did not.
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I got a very good look at her, as she did at us.
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But then, it was not his good looks that made him famous.
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A good look at the bottom end of a drummer tended to lower crowd sympathy.
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Have a good look at that remedy and see if your intuitive feelings can be justified.
hard
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It was less than a hundred metres away, and gave us a long hard look as we stood there.
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Clarisa gave her a hard look .
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The hard look that seems wrong on a face so young was suddenly gone.
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I gave him a hard look .
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The next time you see a personal computer, take a long, hard look .
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She wanted some one outside Orkney to take a long, hard look at what was happening within the islands.
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I intend to take a real hard and mean look at this deal.
long
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Take a good long look at yourself in a mirror, with and without the wrongly-sized items.
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The plump girl behind the counter gave him a long look as he paid.
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Travis gave her appearance one long look before disappearing upstream the way she had come.
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I took a good long look at my chip.
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The next stage is to take a long , hard look at yourself.
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The next time you see a personal computer, take a long , hard look .
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He gave me a long look .
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Now she was stubbornly determined to have a good, long look at the Horseshoe.
new
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Pepsi says it considered more than 3, 000 designs on the way to its new look .
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Observant readers will also notice a new look to the columnists who grace the back end of our editorial pages.
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Now and then she mounted a short lived campaign to achieve a new look .
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But since the controversy is still very much alive, it seems advisable to take a new look at this issue.
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Several fans have complained about the new look .
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And do you know, the new look was the culprit?
odd
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He gave me an odd look as if I was telling strange stories.
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After her outburst, she now remained silent, darting odd looks of triumph at her betrayer.
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We received some odd looks from customers but most smiled and fussed over Spike &038; Molly.
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When I came down the proprietor gave me an odd look and said the gentleman was waiting for me outside.
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SHe noticed Tammuz flicking odd looks at the girl.
quick
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As he raced up the narrow track he took a quick look over his shoulder.
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Here is a quick look at the old and new labels.
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They went up on to the platform, and took a quick look into the Porter's room.
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Then, have a quick look at the floor area in - and immediately surrounding - the kiosk.
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Brian took a quick look at his wife.
■ VERB
cast
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She cast a regretful look at the big double bed with its luxurious continental quilt.
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As the baby grew older, she cast an envying look at pink.
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All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
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A few days after my gift was discovered, Milagros cast me a worried look at dinner.
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Snyde came closer, reached out a paw and touched Whillan's flank strangely, casting a lingering look at it.
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Hattie Johnson cast an unthinking look at Ezra, her nine-year-old boy.
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He automatically steps into the room, casting a melodramatic look over his shoulder.
exchange
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The patients loved it and several laughed out loud at her antics, while Martha and Yvonne exchanged looks of glee.
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They exchanged looks full of sadness, as if they had both lost something.
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He watched as Gilbert exchanged a look with an equally shell-shocked Frye ... and then hurried quickly towards the reception door.
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Papi exchanged a helpless look with Mami.
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Riven and Ratagan exchanged a look , and Riven realised that the big man knew everything.
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As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks .
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The two men exchange a look and put their revolvers back into their holsters.
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Jess and Red exchange another look .
get
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You got to go look for work tomorrow.
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I got a very good look at her, as she did at us.
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But we didn't have a record player, so every night we'd get it out and look at it.
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Because of his persistence, he got a look .
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Nobody else gets much of a look in.
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She stopped and glanced up to get a good look at him.
give
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And he gives me a look of a kind that I don't altogether like.
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She gave him a startled look and walked on.
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I gave him a surprised look .
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My brother gave me a questioning look .
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As he strolled towards the flat a girl who passed gave him a second look: he didn't notice.
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She had given him a spiteful look as she left, taking little catlike steps.
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Nanny gave her a piercing look . ` Really?
shoot
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He shot me a look brimful of amusement, then drained his cup and sat back in the chair.
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The navigator, Jack, came in with some more weather reports, and shot a peculiar look at Eddie.
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Mandy shot her a look of pure astonishment.
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He shot me a worried look .
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Lily shot a quick horrified look up and down the road.
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Rob shot a look at Loulse, who smiled.
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Muriel shot a look at Lily's downcast profile.
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His wife shot him a look .
take
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On arriving at the Imaginary Universes Laboratory, Gedanken immediately took a look into the experimental box.
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The uproar prompted Barwood to take a broader look at the museum.
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Of course I can't repeat Gene's formulae here, visit your library and take a look if you're interested.
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Just take a look at this outrageous mutual-fund portfolio.
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In this, part two of the series, we take a look at some of the music software which is available.
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He simply folded his hands and took a good look at Mel.
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Let us take a closer look at each.
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Using eight criteria that help define the risk-reward equation, Bloomberg takes a look at Albers and his fund.
throw
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When they reached the door she hesitated and threw him a pleading look .
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He ignored her and threw a hard look at me: I better not tell.
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Shiona threw him a harsh look as, shrugging off his hand, she climbed into the passenger seat.
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And that made Hanson throw a mean look .
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The manikin threw a malevolent look at Corbett and fled into the darkness.
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The clerk throws me a contemptuous look , then does the search.
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She threw him a suspicious look .
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He clears his throat, throws one more protesting look at David and prepares to begin.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Look lively!
a faraway look
a funny look
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Billie had a funny look on her face.
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I thought, in my anxious state, that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there.
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Robbie gave her a funny look, as though she were a little peculiar for jumping into his illogical fragment of thought.
a martyred look/expression/air etc
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He did not reply, but got into the car glumly, with a martyred air.
a pointed question/look/remark
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As he left the office he locked it behind him, with a pointed look at Bob.
a withering look/remark etc
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Charles turned abruptly round and gave his wife a withering look as reporters homed in on the pair.
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The dark-haired vibrancer caught him staring and gave him a withering look.
appealing look/expression/voice etc
be/feel/look like your old self
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After five months in the hospital, I'm feeling like my old self again.
be/feel/look/get cold
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Aren't you cold ?
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Come inside before you get cold .
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But no, he decided, the boss was getting colder and colder and his voice quieter.
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He was getting cold , too.
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It was getting cold in the room.
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My chips will be cold by now.
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She felt cold and sick and wished she could crawl away and lie down.
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She was afraid his skin would be cold .
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Since we were making plans to camp at Mammoth, we expected it to be cold .
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Unfortunately he, the lover, had got cold feet at the last minute.
be/seem/look nothing like sb/sth
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Certainly the lateral geniculate nucleus in rats looks nothing like the lateral geniculate nucleus in monkeys.
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It's classed as being a conifer but it looks nothing like one.
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Remember that the intermediate stored pattern may be pretty abstract, looking nothing like the input pattern.
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She insisted that I looked nothing like Majella.
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She looked nothing like her photograph.
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The problem is that in its juvenile form it looks nothing like the adult specimen.
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The zone blitz can fluster an offense because it looks nothing like a conventional blitz.
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This suspect looks nothing like Nichols, a slightly built, light-skinned man in his 40s with thinning hair.
exchange words/looks etc (with sb)
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He and Kemp pound down the stairway, exchanging words.
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Hughes exchanged words with umpire Steve Randell after a confident appeal against Richie Richardson was turned down when he was on 47.
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I would hear the women exchange words with Miss Fingerstop.
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Linda buried herself in the crowd, exchanging words with this one and that and heading for the bar.
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Nurses busily went up and down, sometimes pausing to exchange words and careless laughter.
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The patients loved it and several laughed out loud at her antics, while Martha and Yvonne exchanged looks of glee.
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They exchanged looks full of sadness, as if they had both lost something.
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They exchanged words, not all of which appeared to be in jest.
feel/look like a million bucks
feel/look like hell
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He looks like hell and sounds awful, but then, as he's the first to admit, he always did.
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In that case I would peak earlier and higher and then feel like hell for the rest of the day.
feel/look like shit
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I woke up with a hangover and felt like shit for the rest of the day.
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And it used to make me feel like shit to hear that.
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Everytime I am about to go to a cup match I imagine myself travelling back home feeling like shit .
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Here goes ... I expected to look like shit but this was ridiculous.
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I try to think of nice ways to comment on his appearance without saying he looks like shit .
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It's a terrible thing to be told that and then to do what the director says and it feels like shit .
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The school made you feel like shit .
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We really do look like shit .
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You looked like shit the other night.
fix sb with a stare/glare/look etc
flash a smile/glance/look etc (at sb)
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But spirited Patsy flashed a look of encouragement at him.
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Zak flashed a glance at the crew, saw me and gave me a thumbs-up sign.
flick a glance/look at sb/sth
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Baptiste flicked a look at Léonie.
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She flicked a glance at her watch.
give sb a dirty look
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Amy kept crying, and everybody was giving us dirty looks.
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Frank turned round and gave me a really dirty look.
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My aunt's friends always used to give me dirty looks when I brought my kids over, because they knew I wasn't married.
glazed look/eyes/expression etc
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But he still remembered the hidden yawns, the glazed looks and drooping eyelids.
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Has anyone noticed that Nicolas Cage has gotten a sort of stoned-out, glazed look to him of late?
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He did not acknowledge Conroy, but hurried on down with that glazed look of some one already encased in their next entrance.
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Instead, you held your head high and let a glazed look mask your eyes.
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The knock on the head alone could not account for the glazed look in her eyes.
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They had the distended bellies and glazed eyes of famine.
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With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance.
hangdog expression/look
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He has his father's long face, hangdog expression and lank fair hair.
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Ross was still sporting his hangdog look.
haunted expression/look
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A sleepless night had added to her pallor and the haunted look in her eyes.
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It still had the gaunt, haunted look that had so put Meg off before.
injured look/expression etc
just think/imagine/look
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Anyway, I just thought I'd write to suggest that we meet up at some point.
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I just think an organization like this should be hearing how the board thinks.
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I just thought something that was see through maybe on that wall would.
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I get a headache just looking at a cookbook.
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I promised myself I was just looking.
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I will spend that day in a field of black smokers, just looking.
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Similarly, you should not just look at the eyes or ears when there may be a problem here.
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We just thought - obviously very stupidly - that you might be working on something together.
level voice/look/gaze
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Her eyes were a washed-out blue with a level gaze.
look as if you've been dragged through a hedge backwards
look askance (at sb/sth)
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It often looked askance at the mainland.
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No, it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy.
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Sometimes they would look askance at what I had thrown on.
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The tradition that you came from often looked askance at constitutions, regarding them as mere pieces of paper.
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Yet this restatement of his views won him political support from Liberals who looked askance at this quasi-nationalization programme.
look daggers at sb
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The lady behind the counter looked daggers at me.
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Their relationship is not free and easy but at least Red is no longer looking daggers at her.
look kindly on sb/sth
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But tobacco is a wily and vengeful beast, and one not disposed to look kindly on those who jilt him.
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No skimping, and I'd look kindly on it if you'd provide her with petticoats.
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Penry was unlikely to look kindly on some one who landed on his island uninvited twice in a row.
look like a drowned rat
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Out in the field, we looked like a bunch of drowned rats .
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You were looking like a drowned rat after our little foray into Puddephat's rooms.
look like sth the cat dragged/brought in
look on the bright side
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Always look on the bright side of life.
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Another is that they have an in-built bias towards optimism, always looking on the bright side of life.
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But look on the bright side: we've finally found a way of getting rid of Liverpool, too.
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By the time supper rolls around, he has even begun to look on the bright side.
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Experts believe it is all part of a wartime spirit of looking on the bright side.
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She would look on the bright side.
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Still; look on the bright side: they'd have to order another one.
look out for number one
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We manoeuvre in the world constantly looking out for Number One.
look rough
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It looks rough and unfinished: the corpses probably stir underground during the night.
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Lightly trim the grass using a sharp mower if the surface is looking rough , but do not cut it short.
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She did look ill, and Tippy looked rough at the best of times.
look sharp
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Although the costumes look sharp , the set is bare-bones and nondescript.
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Come on, boys, look sharp .
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He's been training hard and looks sharp .
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Hobert looked sharp , completing 10 of 13 passes.
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So you can expect the geometric pattern lounge carpet to look sharp in years to come.
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They will look sharp for signs of senility and increasing pain-will they perhaps even hope for them?
look to your laurels
look who's talking,
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"You need to get more exercise." "Look who's talking !"
look/feel awful
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You look awful - what's wrong?
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Every time we lose, I just feel awful inside.
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For all her cheerfulness it was painfully obvious that she was feeling awful .
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He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful .
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I felt awful , ill, all beaten up.
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In fact she felt awful , nauseous and light-headed and clammy.
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Oh, and did we mention the damn stuff looked awful , stunk and tasted lousy?
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The next morning I felt awful .
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Tom felt quite confident of his safety, but physically he felt awful .
look/feel etc like nothing on earth
look/feel ghastly
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Anders was already in his bunk, looking ghastly .
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If the old man had looked ill in the train, he looked ghastly now.
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Jacqui looked ghastly when she opened the door.
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She was sober now but she felt ghastly .
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They both looked ghastly white and tense.
look/feel like a million dollars/bucks
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I felt like a million dollars.
look/feel like death warmed up
look/feel small
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A stream that looked small on the map had grown to be about 15 feet across.
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Corrigan felt small beads of sweat run from his armpits down his sides.
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Darren, looking small and extremely disgruntled, was slumped in the front left-hand seat.
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It makes him feel small and worthless.
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No to make me look small , that's her object!
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Ruth felt small and insecure, as if she were a child again.
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She stood trembling, staring at the blank window, feeling smaller than a baby.
look/search high and low
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We looked high and low for Sandy but couldn't find her.
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He had searched high and low for these.
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Throughout her letters, Clappe was searching high and low for a room of her own.
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You say you have looked high and low for new building sites but let me tell you there are some.
look/stare/gaze into space
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He was just gazing into space .
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In his study, Bernard Quex stared into space , pen motionless over his notepad.
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Mrs Frizzell gazed into space and Mrs Murphy smoothed back errant curls from her damp forehead.
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Mrs James caught me staring into space twice even though the girl sitting next to me had nudged me in time.
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My companion remained oblivious to the sights, staring into space and frowning.
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Rachel screamed and woke up, drenched with sweat, shaking, staring into space .
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Sometimes the door was ajar and I would see her sitting absolutely still, staring into space , not reading at all.
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Usually, after a performance I come home and stare into space .
look/work a treat
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As usual, she looked a treat .
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Don't he look a treat !
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I bet it works a treat .
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I must say, Gwen, your garden looks a treat .
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I repeated a few times, and it worked a treat - on a window as well.
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It's another first-rate conversion that works a treat on the Game Gear.
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Much funnier than Tarzan or Hercules, this works a treat because the hero, Emperor Kuzco, is an anti-hero.
meaningful look/glance/smile etc
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All he could produce was a stiff upper lip, while young Lady C cast meaningful looks at sturdy gamekeeper Mellors.
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Benjamin indicated with meaningful glances at me that this stark, sombre evening was such an appropriate time.
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But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance.
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Lots of meaningful glances and repressed passion as only the Victorians knew how.
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They exchanged meaningful glances from time to time - and it was apparent that his brother was as troubled as he by the disturbing events.
murderous look/expression/glare etc
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She cast a murderous look over his hard male profile.
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She had stopped giving me murderous looks and seemed quite bright-eyed as we got ourselves ready to leave the ship.
not give sth a second glance/look
pained expression/look/voice etc
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As you began again, all of us around you exchanged more pained looks.
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He assumed a pained expression and averted his eyes.
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He finally looked at Cantor, a pained expression on his face.
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His mouth was set in a prim, pained expression of disapproval.
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Larry, my stepfather, sits stiffly with a pained expression on his face.
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Rex made with the crossed eyes and suitably pained expression.
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The ubiquitous man with the pained expression vanishes.
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You noticed a vaguely pained expression enter Jackson's eyes, as if he was wondering why nothing ever proved simple.
penetrating look/eyes/gaze etc
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Although most people would have stared at his nose Adam was more struck by his penetrating eyes.
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He was from Fukien province, was missionary-trained, and had bright, penetrating eyes.
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Matron was equally dignified, with a towering cap of white linen and a penetrating gaze.
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Nomatterwhat she did to distract herself, his dark penetrating eyes lingered in her memory as though they'd been branded there.
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Take a long hard, and penetrating look into the way you handle your life and the pattern of your partnerships in general.
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The woman scrutinized me from across the office, holding her penetrating gaze as I walked toward her.
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They were the blackest, brightest, most penetrating eyes I ever saw....
pitying look/smile/glance
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The other smiled at him a pitying smile.
searching look/glance/gaze
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Crouched down beside it, Delaney took another searching glance behind him, at the lifeless, cluttered room.
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Guy led Chalon back on to the road, casting another searching glance up at Isabel's closed face.
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Soul searching Look no further for a hot new boy band.
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The searching gaze was too much for Denis.
shoot sb a look/glance
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He shot me a look brimful of amusement, then drained his cup and sat back in the chair.
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Joyce shot her a look in which surprise and indignation were nicely fused.
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Mandy shot her a look of pure astonishment.
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Nick and I shot a conspiratorial look at each other: this time we would refuse to fight.
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She shot a worried glance down to the bottom of the yard.
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The team shot quizzical glances at their new addition but made no move to get rid of him.
sidelong look/glance
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Afterwards, in the changing room, everyone shoots sidelong glances at Lil.
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But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes.
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I cast a sidelong glance, to see if she's noticed.
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Pleased faces, sidelong glances seeking agreement.
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She cast a sidelong glance at Fen.
sneak a look/glance/peek
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Babur sneaks a look at the policewoman.
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I sneaked a look at my medical report; slow heartbeat, low metabolism.
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I sneaked a look behind as we went off in a cloud of dust.
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Just before we left, I raised up to straighten my coat and sneaked a look at the McLaren girl.
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Men sneak looks all the time!
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Occasionally they sneak glances at the businessmen -- who look back at them in mutual amazement and fear.
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Only the men would sneak glances at her, admiring the shapely figure showing in the plain uniform.
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The chairman sneaks a look at some of the messages on Doreen's card.
steal a look/glance etc
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He stole a glance at her.
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Jenna stole a look at him and he was watching her intently, in every way intent.
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She stole a glance at him; his features matched the ice in his tone and his eyes surpassed it.
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She stole a glance from her future and turned her head.
take a (long) hard look at sth/sb
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After the inevitable posture of being affronted, I took a hard look at what I was doing.
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Blairites could take a harder look at a rhetorical vocabulary in which every single item was anticipated by totalitarianism.
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In practice, many doctors are too busy to take a long hard look at every patient.
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Instead, they take a hard look at a difficult moral and political dilemma and find no easy answers.
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Or you can take a hard look at the feminist agenda.
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Some one needs to take a long hard look at what has happened to tennis in Ulster over the last 20 years.
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The latter allows both parties a chance to stand back from the daily routine and take a harder look at overall performance.
throw sb a look/glance/smile etc
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And that made Hanson throw a mean look.
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Ezra threw Morrill a look of utter disbelief and shook his head.
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He dropped his hand, he threw a look right, then left.
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He ignored her and threw a hard look at me: I better not tell.
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He sensed more than heard the scuffle of trainer shoes on concrete behind him and threw a casual glance over his shoulder.
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I gasped at her beauty and, like the rest, threw envious glances at her most fortunate husband.
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Mark, too, could be thrown a second glance every now and then.
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The nurse was aware of her humiliation and kept throwing sympathetic glances.
vacant expression/look/stare etc
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Brittany, the blond cheerleader, has a vacant stare and huge eyelashes.
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But an oddly vacant look had come over Cinzia's features.
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Eyes downcast; baby lips pulled into a frown; dull, vacant stare.
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He was a bright-eyed boy, thin and fair, with a vacant expression that often gave way to shrill laughter.
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He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened.
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However, just behind the vacant expression he offered me, I detected fear.
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The maid's vacant expression was replaced momentarily by one of greedy expectation - shortly followed by disappointment.
you only have to read/look at/listen to etc sth
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A look of relief crossed his face.
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After winning, she had a look of pure joy on her face.
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Computer graphics gave the creature a watery look .
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From the look of it, I'd say the chair was about 100 years old, maybe 150.
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He's trying for a '70s disco look .
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He normally wore a slightly amused look on his round face.
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Her long straight hair and dark eye make-up give her a sort of late-'60s look .
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Here's a brief look at some of the problems we'll be facing in the coming year.
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I was getting disapproving looks from the people around me.
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Mrs. Moody had it in for me - I could tell by the look in her eyes.
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Sapporo, Japan, has the look of a Wisconsin city in winter.
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Sarah needed only one look at her daughter's face to know something was wrong.
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She's been giving me dirty looks all morning. What have I done wrong?
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She has a pensive, almost sad look about her.
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Sheila nodded and gave him a sympathetic look .
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The text is fine but the look of the page is all wrong.
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You should have seen the look on his face when I told him I was leaving.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A look passed between the two men as George took the loafers.
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A kiss-and-tell look behind the scenes of a sport always turns heads with book publishers.
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As he passed the window, he saw Percy standing at the cash register with a hurt look .
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Oh, well ... You will have a look at the lines over the weekend, won't you?
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She learnt a look and a posture and a set of adjectives which passed for being hip in the Village.
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When the shrieks of his gang became too much, he lifted his hand and his face took on a furious look .