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 | ‘ The embalmers did their best to dress the corpse : before the coffin was lowered , I looked once more at the face . |
| 8 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 9 | Sara said , ‘ What was all that noise ? – She looked more closely at the figures and turned away from him . |
| 10 | Then I looked more closely at the General 's face and realized the comparison was not odd at all . |
| 11 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 12 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 15 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |
| 16 | The Doctor looked sadly down at the bodies . |
| 17 | He pulled them on and looked sourly across at the friar . |
| 18 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |