Example sentences of "she looked [adv] at 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 | Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes . |
| 3 | She looked carefully at the picture , studying the rings on the index fingers of the two shadowy figures . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | She looked again at the hopper 's clock . |
| 6 | She looked again at the bottle , standing like a soldier on the wooden bench . |
| 7 | As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’ |
| 8 | She looked again at the picture : really , Hilda was quite a pretty woman in her way , if your tastes inclined you to that sort of good looks . |
| 9 | She looked slyly at the children and laughed when they laughed . |
| 10 | Roman drove steadily over the causeway and she looked apprehensively at the expanse of sea on either side . |
| 11 | She looked pleadingly at the man in overalls as if he might step in and save her . |
| 12 | She looked stupidly at the telephone . |
| 13 | As she paced , unaware of the picture she presented of extreme agitation , she looked only at the ground , and so did not know that she was observed . |
| 14 | She looked across at the scene as once again the actress ran and fell and the gunmen rose from the car wrecks where the nudes lay or sat reading aloud . |
| 15 | She looked across at the film star , not with a great deal of pity . |
| 16 | She looked disapprovingly at the cluster of purple flowers amid the handfuls of green-grey leaves . |
| 17 | She looked longingly at the shower , but was forced to admit that for the moment she was n't agile enough to use it . |
| 18 | She looked longingly at the keg , then with a casual twitch of her head added : ‘ I 'll see to that brandy while I 'm waiting , ’ and slipped out to the passage and the cellar door . |
| 19 | Turning the back-door key , she looked longingly at the lavatory door . |
| 20 | Sarah collected some mugs from a cupboard and set them down close to the coffee maker ; she looked impatiently at the level of coffee in the jug , as if the slowness of the process was a familiar annoyance . |
| 21 | She looked pointedly at the stairs behind him , and he gave her a thorough scrutiny , as though trying to work out exactly what was on her mind . |
| 22 | Ajayi sat back , putting her gloves back on , She looked doubtfully at the man on the far side of the table . |