Example sentences of "looked [adv] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | of the two wooden chairs at the kitchen table and looked rather helplessly at the card with its seven clearly written digits , then glanced round as if seeking inspiration where to put it for safe keeping . |
| 2 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 3 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 4 | Amanda Robson , ( 31 ) , whose parents live at Chawton and who plays hockey for Alton ladies , completed the distance in five hours 14 minutes and , according to her mother ‘ looked remarkably well at the end ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 6 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 7 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 8 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |
| 9 | ‘ The embalmers did their best to dress the corpse : before the coffin was lowered , I looked once more at the face . |
| 10 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 11 | Sara said , ‘ What was all that noise ? – She looked more closely at the figures and turned away from him . |
| 12 | Then I looked more closely at the General 's face and realized the comparison was not odd at all . |
| 13 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 14 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 15 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 16 | The aide-de-camp was quietly providing a running translation of the senator 's remarks and the governor looked up sharply at the mention of the word " independence . " |
| 17 | He looked up sharply at the sound of the door — Again ? he thought disbelievingly , and he winced as the movement aggravated the mild headache that he 'd brought home with him . |
| 18 | He looked up suddenly at a noise . |
| 19 | Montgomery looked up gratefully at the sound of rattling cups . |
| 20 | Cardiff looked up then at the Constable , still dabbing at a fresh nosebleed with his now-crimson handkerchief . |
| 21 | He looked upwards now at the bunting stretched across the girders of the platform , then said , ‘ With a little imagination you know I could dismiss the Coronation and take it that this show of affection was all for my being twenty-one today . |
| 22 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 23 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 24 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 25 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 26 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 27 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 28 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 29 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 30 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |