Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 2 | She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window . |
| 3 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 4 | He looked down at the river bed below him . |
| 5 | She looked down at the computer screen . |
| 6 | He looked down at the jogger casuals she wore , then nodded approval . |
| 7 | She moved to the window , looked down at the wasteland garden . |
| 8 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
| 9 | Annie looked down from the first-floor drawing-room windows to the gaunt trees of Regent 's Park and said , ‘ It 's simply super . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's she staring at ? ’ said Gazzer to Bella as they both looked down from the pier gardens . |
| 11 | I looked over to the side wall where the postern gate stood and went cold with terror . |
| 12 | Pulling herself away , she looked over at the filing cabinets against one wall . |
| 13 | Richmann looked over at the steam yacht , and made a circling motion with his hand . |
| 14 | Seb looked up towards the manor house and saw a dancing orange light flickering erratically at one of the upstairs windows . |
| 15 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 16 | The big one looked up at the night sky , seeking inspiration . |
| 17 | Switching off , Dalgliesh looked up at the oil portrait of his maternal great-grandfather , the Victorian bishop , robed but unmitred , his arms in their billowing lawn sleeves confidently resting on the arms of the chair . |
| 18 | He looked up at the apple tree and replied , ‘ It makes no fucking difference , Piper , where you dig it . |
| 19 | At one minute to air , Scott grinned across to the other newscaster , looked up at the control room , and nodded . |
| 20 | She looked up at the bedroom ceiling , where a pale stain recalled a burst pipe nearly fifteen months ago . |
| 21 | I looked up at the bedroom window as I closed the door behind me . |
| 22 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 23 | Nick looked up from the backgammon board . |
| 24 | As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’ |
| 25 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 26 | Robyn looked up from the kitchen sink and placed a washed plate on to the draining-board . |
| 27 | Piper O'Rourke looked up from the shift supervisor 's desk as a dishevelled and embarrassed Alex Bannen walked into the Belial Base Operations Room , followed by his son . |
| 28 | Lucenzo looked up from the coffee machine warily . |
| 29 | Matthew looked up from the picnic basket as though aware of her intent , serious gaze . |
| 30 | But Pauline Woolgrove , chief sterling trader , looked up from the dealing tickets for the several hundred million pound deals her desk had successfully completed during the night . |