Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pron] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 2 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 3 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 4 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 5 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 6 | By this time , he believed there were no suitable ‘ mature ’ actresses left , so he looked for someone with the necessary vocal ability . |
| 7 | They looked for it inside the white car . |
| 8 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 9 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 10 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 11 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 12 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 13 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 14 | Tenison looked from one to the other uncertainly . |
| 15 | The man looked from one to the other , and his manner changed . |
| 16 | The man looked from one to the other — waiting . |
| 17 | India-May looked from one to the other , colour creeping up her neck . |
| 18 | Millie had come into the room carrying a tin tray , and as she put it down on the table , she looked from one to the other and said , ‘ What are you talkin' about , closed schools ? |
| 19 | She looked from one to the other , clearly terrified . |
| 20 | Julia looked from one to the other , strangely at a loss . |
| 21 | Suzie looked from one to the other , obviously enjoying her moment of glory . |
| 22 | Marguerite 's face flushed with pleasure and Claudine looked from one to the other very suspiciously . |
| 23 | She looked from one to the other , glad to have got a word in on behalf of Aunt Bertha , but it brought no softening to the inscrutable expression on Silas 's face . |
| 24 | Eddie Brady looked from one to the other and said , ‘ I think I know the one you mean . ’ |
| 25 | Frank looked from one to the other , and then , addressing himself solely to Peggy , he said , ‘ You 'd better hang on to something , Peggy . |
| 26 | Anna looked from one to the other and shook her head . |
| 27 | Fabia looked from one to the other and wanted to be a duty to neither . |
| 28 | I turned and looked at myself in the cracked Cutty Sark Whisky mirror behind Mama Sipcott 's bar . |
| 29 | He looked at her for the first time with real unease . |
| 30 | He looked at her for the first time since the beginning ; her head was still turned away , her hands over her face ; she had shown no further response to anything he had done . |