Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 2 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 3 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 4 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 5 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 6 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 7 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 8 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 9 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 10 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 11 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 12 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 13 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 14 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 15 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 16 | He looked past her beyond the stairs into a kitchen . |
| 17 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
| 18 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 19 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 20 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 21 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 22 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 23 | He looked from me to the suitcase and back again in amazement . |
| 24 | Maxim looked from her to the marble and back . |
| 25 | She would know at once when the right people entered the from the moment she looked upon them at the top of the wide staircase . |
| 26 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 27 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 28 | Whitlock smiled at her then looked beyond her at the couple on the sofa . |
| 29 | She looked beyond him into the darkness afraid that at any moment Craig would return . |
| 30 | To cover her confusion she looked beyond him into the street . |