Example sentences of "looked [adv] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 4 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 5 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 6 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 7 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 8 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 9 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 12 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 13 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |