Example sentences of "looked [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door opened as she was counting her change and he looked suspiciously at the coins in her palm . |
| 2 | But Ruddock enjoyed his own share of good fortune later , escaping punishment for what looked suspiciously like an elbow in the face that flattened Ndlovu . |
| 3 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 4 | David was a war-leader of the Israelites ( who looked rather like the Franks to Charlemagne ) , but he was also the builder of the Jerusalem Temple . |
| 5 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 6 | Charles looked on with an expression of distaste which Miles took for admiration . |
| 7 | The Princess of Wales , her face almost lost beneath a huge black velvet hat , looked on from a balcony at the nearby Foreign Office where she stood silently with the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal . |
| 8 | While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne . |
| 9 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 10 | It looked afresh at the elements in the established balance between the CNAA and its institutions , retaining standards at the centre of debate , defining a continuing role for the CNAA , justifying and describing the process towards greater institutional autonomy , conceding the need to take account of different stages of development , and looking towards possible implications for the whole of higher education . |
| 11 | Ajayi sat back , putting her gloves back on , She looked doubtfully at the man on the far side of the table . |
| 12 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
| 13 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 14 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 15 | Didcot 's scorer looked in with a chance of a second , and also taking the pressure off when he was put through , but instead of trying what looked a goal chance , chose to pass after sixty one minutes . |
| 16 | On her way , she passed the room with the light on , and she looked in with a stab of surprised longing at the cosy scene inside . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose we 'll see passenger flights after this , ‘ he looked thoughtfully at a bottle of beer . |
| 18 | Belov looked thoughtfully at the ground around them , as if he might still read signs that had long ago disappeared . |
| 19 | At last she set down her cup and looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | As they went up , he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones . |
| 23 | You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’ |
| 24 | I looked down towards the end of the straight . |
| 25 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 26 | He turned around and looked down into a sea of human faces , below him . |
| 27 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 28 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 29 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 30 | Paddy looked down for a moment at Joey , who beamed up at him , ‘ We gon na play checkers , Paddy ? ’ he called out suddenly and laughed . |