Example sentences of "looking [adv] at the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 2 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
| 3 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 4 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 5 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 6 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 7 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 8 | ‘ Do after your kind , ’ said Radulfus , looking down at the pair with a face almost as blanched as the prior 's , ‘ and so must I. Jerome , ’ he said , with absolute and steely authority , ‘ look up and face me . ’ |
| 9 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
| 10 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
| 11 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 12 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 13 | And she stood looking down at the key in her hand , while she said to herself , ‘ Well , this seems to decide it , does n't it ? ’ and turning , she yelled , ‘ Ben ! ’ |
| 14 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 15 | I stood looking down at the pavement below the payphone while Dennis padded across the wall-to-wall carpeting and called distantly to his wife . |
| 16 | He was looking down at the pavement outside the house . |
| 17 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 18 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 19 | The young boy still stood like a soldier , holding the reins of the horses , his eyes looking eagerly at the piles of steaming dung obligingly dropped by both Philomel and Cranston 's mount . |
| 20 | ‘ Your lawn 's a bit overgrown , Dizzy , ’ one of Dizzy 's Women said , looking critically at the grass around her feet . |
| 21 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 22 | He put out a hand and smoothed the bear 's shaggy head , giving it embarrassed pats , while looking up at the bear-leader as if to say , Is that all right ? |
| 23 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 24 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 26 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 27 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 28 | He was looking up at the sign over the door . |
| 29 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 30 | Sir , — May I congratulate the photographer who took the picture in last week 's edition showing a young boy looking up at the Queen with wonderment and awe . |