Example sentences of "he looked [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He tried very hard not to cough like he 'd seen people cough in westerns when they tried whisky for the first time , and got away with just clearing his throat rather loudly ( he looked round at the curtains , afraid somebody might have heard ) .
2 He looked round at the rest of them .
3 Then he looked round at the roses climbing the old red walls , the pink and white flowers on the fruit trees , and the birds and the butterflies everywhere .
4 Silently he looked round at the tumbledown hut amid the zooming bees .
5 He looked round at the class .
6 He looked around at the ranks of worried faces and his slightly severe expression softened .
7 He looked around at the rest of the journalists .
8 He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried .
9 The door opened as she was counting her change and he looked suspiciously at the coins in her palm .
10 He looked carefully at the sticks of uneven length and thickness that Philip had fixed together , too loosely .
11 He looked carefully at the writing .
12 He looked across the fire at Lennie 's anguished face , and then he looked ashamedly at the flames .
13 And he looked away at the crowd so near to him and felt a stab of real fear .
14 As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room .
15 He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’
16 Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth .
17 He looked up at the ceiling as if expecting to see him floating there .
18 He looked up at the ceiling .
19 He looked up at the ceiling .
20 He looked up at the clouds .
21 He looked up at the window of the nearest compartment .
22 He looked up at the horses , shading his eyes against a sting of sun from the west .
23 He looked up at the sky .
24 He looked up at the sky .
25 He looked up at the sky .
26 The figure framed in the light was shorter than I had expected , thin and stooped ; he looked up at the sky and cursed a guttural curse , then started buttoning his fly .
27 Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud .
28 Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport .
29 He looked up at the sky , above the blocks and squat towers of the medium-rise office blocks , and smiled at its blue , city-grimed segmentings .
30 He looked up at the sky and saw two eyes staring at him .
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