Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked in briefly at the unconscious girl . |
| 2 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 3 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 4 | Leithen and I stopped at the top of the hill and looked down again into the little green valley . |
| 5 | She rose to her feet , and looked down again at the rolling hillside covered with fruit and vegetables , with grazing goats , sheep and chickens . |
| 6 | When we reached the road we stopped and looked down again at the little house . |
| 7 | Martin charging down on Dobson ; Martin , eyes glaring and lips drawn back in a feral snarl ; Martin , arm raised and baton coming down again and again on Dobson 's head ; Martin , growling savagely at the yobs , daring them to interfere ; Martin , turing angrily as the sergeant pulled the baton from his hand ; finally , Martin , white and shaking , as he looked down disbelievingly at the unconscious Dobson . |
| 8 | Larsen looked down fondly at the gaunt soot smeared features of the hollow-eyed girl and nodded back . |
| 9 | He looked up suspiciously at the northern sky , clear and tranquil . |
| 10 | Then , even as it dawned on her that the flowers had probably been placed there by lovers , so , as she looked up again into the dark eyes of the tall Czechoslovakian , she all at once knew why it was that her breath had caught a few seconds ago . |
| 11 | Then he looked back again at the blinding quayside . |
| 12 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 13 | Charlotte turned , before getting into the car , and looked back once in a long , sweeping survey of the twilit bowl of turf and stone . |
| 14 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 15 | The window looked out on to a wide wooden verandah with a few deadbeat chairs and a metal table that took one leg off the ground when you leaned on it . |
| 16 | Through the large plate glass windows ( a pleasant feature of all Wildfowl Trust Centres ) we looked out on to a deep lagoon , dug especially to attract wild birds . |
| 17 | The Inspector edged down the confined passage into the living room which looked out on to a neat back garden . |
| 18 | The window looked out on to the cobbled yard . |
| 19 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 20 | From under fierce black brows a pair of hazel eyes looked out calculatingly at the impersonal kitchen , made spotless by the ministrations of a Dutch cleaning lady . |
| 21 | She wandered back into the living-room , with its rugged stone walls and polished wood and leather , and looked out again at the darkened skies and pouring rain . |
| 22 | We looked out together into the icy darkness . |
| 23 | Whoever looked out northward from the massive protective shell of Trazior might suspect that some giant world-spider , nourished on venom , had swung from hive to hive spinning ropes , and depositing multi-millions of hatchlings in each domain . |
| 24 | He rolled as he hit the ground , and flipped onto his feet again while he looked around frantically for the other dragon . |
| 25 | Rincewind looked around nervously for a tall figure in black ( wizards , even failed wizards , have in addition to rods and cones in their eyeballs the tiny octagons that enable them to see into the far octarine , the basic colour of which all other colours are merely pale shadows impinging on normal four-dimensional space . |