Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 2 | He looked down angrily at the man who had been so uselessly injured . |
| 3 | Dunbar came picking his way between the debris and the fallen , and looked down calmly upon the son and successor of his old enemy . |
| 4 | She looked down miserably at the table-top ; then looked up again as Morse elaborated : |
| 5 | Brother Rhun , youngest and freshest and the flower of the flock , went after his nature , asking no leave , and kneeled beside Jerome , circling his quaking shoulders with an embracing arm , and lifting the hapless penitent closer into his hold before he looked up confidently into the abbot 's face . |
| 6 | Passengers went to the open doors and looked up and down the platform , trying to make out why they were stuck there , but no one looked up on to the roof of the car . |
| 7 | She looked up eagerly at the sound of footsteps , but then , as she saw the two women , with an almost human expression of disappointment she turned her head away and with a heavy sigh lowered her head to her paws . |
| 8 | The aide-de-camp was quietly providing a running translation of the senator 's remarks and the governor looked up sharply at the mention of the word " independence . " |
| 9 | He looked up sharply at the sound of the door — Again ? he thought disbelievingly , and he winced as the movement aggravated the mild headache that he 'd brought home with him . |
| 10 | Emilia looked up sharply in the gloom . |
| 11 | The library 's sole occupant , an elderly man whom she took to be Bill , looked up interrogatively from the newspaper he was reading . |
| 12 | Montgomery looked up gratefully at the sound of rattling cups . |
| 13 | Cardiff looked up then at the Constable , still dabbing at a fresh nosebleed with his now-crimson handkerchief . |
| 14 | Pilot X looked up wildly from the checklist . |
| 15 | Cardiff looked back over to the reception windows at Frye 's silhouette . |
| 16 | She looked back briefly at the house behind her , low and grey with its long eighteenth-century windows and its sheltering clumps of trees , then she picked up her skirts and began to run up the slope towards the sea . |
| 17 | The parks and main avenue were awash with trees in full blossom , and when she looked back up towards the farm she could see patches of cloudy pink where the apple trees were in bloom . |
| 18 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 19 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 20 | I looked back constantly to the morning with huge inward joy ; to Ronnie 's phone call , to the revelation over hurdles . |
| 21 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 22 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 23 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 24 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 25 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 26 | The voices belonged to Rohmer and Jimmy Devlin , but he could n't hear what they were arguing about as he hauled himself around the staircase rail , paused for gasping breath and looked back down into the stairwell . |
| 27 | The moon was now hidden by clouds as Ellie turned and looked back out of the window . |
| 28 | Depressed and disappointed , she went to the square of kitchen window and looked out on to the pool , which glittered in the moonlight , now flowing with the precious and expensive liquid which should have filled their most urgent needs . |
| 29 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 30 | As the commentator began to analyse the Yankees ' seasonal batting averages Graham looked around slowly at the tranquillity of his surroundings . |