Example sentences of "looked [prep] him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 2 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 3 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 4 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 8 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 9 | Curtis looked after him with an understanding grin ; the two men had a lot in common . |
| 10 | Doyle looked after him in a kind of angry bewilderment . |
| 11 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 12 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 13 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 14 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 15 | She looked beyond him into the darkness afraid that at any moment Craig would return . |
| 16 | To cover her confusion she looked beyond him into the street . |
| 17 | The young man looked at him for a while . |
| 18 | It was a young couple , who both looked at him for a second before driving on . |
| 19 | Martin looked at him for a moment and smiled softly at him as he said , ‘ I would , laddie , but you 'd better not ; I think your mother needs you tonight . |
| 20 | Len now rose from the bed and began his packing , while Joe , picking up his cap , looked at him for a moment , then said , ‘ Well , be seeing you . ’ |
| 21 | She looked at him for a moment as if weighing up the consequences of telling the truth for once . |
| 22 | She looked at him for a moment and burst out laughing . |
| 23 | Annie looked at him for a moment , then turned away . |
| 24 | Connor looked at him for a moment , then joined in the laughter . |
| 25 | His mother looked at him for a moment without an expression on her face , then she smiled and waved her glass at him . |
| 26 | She looked at him with a derision of her own , delighted to be able to go into battle , and she was just standing to leave when there was a noise in another room of the suite as if something had fallen over . |
| 27 | She looked at him with a feeling of panic . |
| 28 | We 've got a fine little school here , I 'm sure you 'd agree — ’ Hilary Frome looked at him with a light of pure idealism in his eyes , but he drew the line at assenting — ‘ but what 's going to count in the years ahead is what we 've got up top . |
| 29 | She looked at him with a gleam of defiance . |
| 30 | She looked at him with the confidence of a beautiful woman who was used to getting her own way . |