Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked down at the front fastenings , then her fingers shook as they fumbled to button the jacket correctly . |
| 2 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 3 | She looked down at the broad flags of the terrace they were crossing . |
| 4 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 5 | Lewis looked down at the uncarpeted floor-boards and put his note-book away . |
| 6 | He looked down at the drenched figures of the boy and dog . |
| 7 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 8 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
| 9 | She looked down at the patterned rugs on the floor and edged in more closely behind Gloria , gripping her skirt . |
| 10 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 11 | He looked down at the copious notes in front of him and cleared his throat again . |
| 12 | A resigned silence congealed over the rows of people and the Reverend Archibald Menzies gripped the edges of the lectern , closed his eyes and raised his face to the ceiling , then looked down at the serried faces and spoke . |
| 13 | Guido ripped free the dangling drunken door like a man putting out of its misery a fatally wounded animal , and looked down at the broken pieces in his hand . |
| 14 | Turning slightly , and almost against his own will , he looked over at the dark graves . |
| 15 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 16 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 17 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 18 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 19 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 20 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 21 | ‘ But there 's nothing , ’ Clare repeated in amazement , as she followed Caro over the raw uneven ground , and looked back at the truncated ends of the streets they were leaving behind them . |
| 22 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 23 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 24 | Elisabeth knelt on the window-seat and looked out at the ancient trees through the columns of the colonnade . |
| 25 | He looked out at the green fields and trees . |
| 26 | But before the great affair struck up , one looked around at the new faces : Steve Milligan , who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland , nicer than her impossible opinions , whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express ( one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst ) , Nigel Jones , the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard , and a man and woman sitting together , pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who , if they flourish in Labour politics , will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus . |
| 27 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 28 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 29 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 30 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |