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

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1 She looked mutinously at the scenery and listened to the clunking noises of the car as it trundled along , allowing minimal ventilation through the tiny windows that only slid across to open halfway .
2 She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold .
3 She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen .
4 Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early .
5 She looked around at the fields .
6 She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes .
7 She looked up at the girl beside her .
8 She looked up at the ceiling and shivered .
9 She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass .
10 But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone .
11 Instinctively she looked up at the sky .
12 Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky .
13 She looked up at the sky , where vultures were gathering .
14 She looked up at the clock , wondering if there was time for a pot of tea before lunch , but deciding that the second gong would sound soon , and she could wait .
15 She looked up at the lorry .
16 The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars .
17 Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through .
18 Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair .
19 She looked up at the statue and laughed .
20 She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest .
21 Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks .
22 She looked up at the rook 's nest and the grey sky beyond , then bent to pick a clump of white winter aconites to take home to Josh .
23 She looked up at the advertisements above the windows .
24 She looked up at the hill , but the château was invisible from this angle behind its enshrouding of trees .
25 She looked up at the sound of his voice ; he did n't sound particularly pleased .
26 She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago .
27 She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns .
28 Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes .
29 She looked carefully at the picture , studying the rings on the index fingers of the two shadowy figures .
30 But , since she was his guest and would have to eat something , she looked hopelessly at the menu again , and smilingly suggested , ‘ Perhaps you would n't mind ordering for me . ’
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