Example sentences of "she looked [adv] [prep] the [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 slowly around the room . |
| 3 | She looked round for the entrance . |
| 4 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
| 5 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She looked around at the fields . |
| 8 | She looked around in the hope of recognising some landmarks . |
| 9 | She looked around in the light of the headlamps . |
| 10 | She looked ahead to the island with anticipation . |
| 11 | Her involvement with Adam and Rourke had brought her nothing but trouble and recrimination so far , and when she looked ahead to the future she could see only a bleak landscape stretching out before her . |
| 12 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 13 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
| 14 | She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes . |
| 15 | She looked up at the girl beside her . |
| 16 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
| 17 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
| 18 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 19 | Instinctively she looked up at the sky . |
| 20 | Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky . |
| 21 | She looked up at the sky , where vultures were gathering . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She looked up at the lorry . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
| 28 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |