Example sentences of "looked [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know what the guards thought when they looked through the closed-circuit television that was always trained on us here and saw three men , heads motionless , looking down fixedly at some spot on the ground , making curious , swinging arm movements . |
| 2 | And forgetting , startled , she looked for the hovering colour and saw a rainbow forming itself . |
| 3 | He still encountered in his daily life a few who looked past the empty gaud that distracted lesser minds and longed for a revelation that would burn the tinsel away , an Apocalypse that would show the Fifth the glories it yearned for in its sleep . |
| 4 | And she just looked like the typical artist as well . |
| 5 | It looked like the Red Rock that I 've had . |
| 6 | When he had recovered himself he looked up the narrow lane and saw a young boy racing into the distance , the white straw hat clutched in one hand and waving at his side as his arms pumped the air with the effort of running . |
| 7 | Joe turned and looked into the kindly face as he said , ‘ I really have n't any family , Len . |
| 8 | ‘ Delicious , ’ Clare said feebly as she looked into the smiling face and aquamarine eyes of her son . |
| 9 | The monks looked upon the small bridge and pathway as a God-given right of access . |
| 10 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 11 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 12 | The judge effectively looked at the overall plan and examined the position before and after the plan in order to see where the element of bounty lay . |
| 13 | One of the youths walked over to the group , looked at the black girl and said , ‘ By the way , you are a nigger too . ’ |
| 14 | Agnes looked at the lime-green coat and dress . |
| 15 | She looked at the strong hand as it shifted gears and continued resting on the lever . |
| 16 | Rose Quinton looked at the extraordinary man and thought as many another had : what a pity ! |
| 17 | Wycliffe looked at the young man and wondered how much longer he could carry on . |
| 18 | The company initially looked at the latter approach but the gateway is proving trickier than had been envisaged . |
| 19 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 20 | I looked at the other day and I was thinking oh god , I want to go to sleep a couple of days last , you know |
| 21 | But when Ronald Reagan came to Washington a year later , another government department , the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) , looked at the same evidence and decided not to limit most other , potentially higher human exposures to the chemical . |
| 22 | I looked at the little priest and grinned at Benjamin . |
| 23 | Conway looked at the old man and felt afraid . |
| 24 | Karen looked at the old man and for a moment she saw something cold and frightening in his smiling eyes . |
| 25 | Philip looked at the white bread and the sultanas . |
| 26 | He looked at the knotted neck and shook his head . |
| 27 | I looked at the empty estate-car when we reached the other side . |
| 28 | She looked at the burnt-out hopper and the forest savaged by the cataclysmic explosion . |
| 29 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 30 | One of them came in , looked at the rubber gear and said , cor , I do n't know about this any more , this is all a bit too weird for me . |