Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Looking up at the illuminated sign overhead she was glad she had not attempted to push her way in . |
| 32 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 33 | He stood , looking up at the little building , feeling constrained to say more . |
| 34 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 35 | Looking back at the bell-box Sorvino was tempted to find a half-brick and try to put it out , but that would be fun and not duty . |
| 36 | Tsu Ma turned , looking back at the young man . |
| 37 | But by looking back at the archaic phase of Greek history and forward to later autocrats , as we have done with the Sicilian tyrants , we can remind ourselves that the democratic interludes of Greek history were not merely short but untypical — in Syracuse , Macedon , Cyrene and satrapal Asia Minor one-man rule was normal for much of the period 479–323 BC . |
| 38 | Luke shrugged eloquently , his eyes like dark , dreamy pools of liquid as he favoured Fran with a lingering look before looking back at the older woman . |
| 39 | He levelled off about ten feet above the ground and banked as he climbed , looking back at the red flag . |
| 40 | So , too , the third of them , Stevens , who stood to one side , looking back at the wall-length window and its view of the great circle of the spaceport 's landing apron . |
| 41 | Looking back at the tangled web of confused events we can see that the answer had already emerged . |
| 42 | I would be sitting in the car looking out at the fascinating scenery , my mum and my brother would be doing the same , my sister would be looking at a book and my dad would be driving . |
| 43 | Looking out at the dark motorway strip , she decided she hated Damian Flint . |
| 44 | She glanced at her daughter as she reached for the silver letter-knife ; Senga was standing before the French doors , looking out at the snow-piled garden . |
| 45 | He looked round at her , standing beside him in the corridor bar looking out at the stupid countryside . |
| 46 | ‘ It 's only a thunder-shower , ’ Matthew said calmly , looking out at the storm-tossed lake . |
| 47 | ‘ It 's good that they can come here , ’ he murmured , looking out at the lively group . |
| 48 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 49 | Later , she stood alone at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit sea . |
| 50 | One night in London , nearly a year later , a servant girl was sitting at her bedroom window , looking out at the moonlit street . |
| 51 | Looking around at the suffocating power of the Roman Catholic Church and the less humane churches of Protestantism , he found that he had nowhere else to go ; they had no answers for this situation either . |
| 52 | He halted before it , looking about at the relentless blackness with an expression of distaste , pursing the fine lips that were visible below the hat . |
| 53 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 54 | I made a mug of decaf and sat looking round at the crumbling plaster ceiling , the curdled paintwork , the tatty carpet and the flophouse furnishings . |
| 55 | So she got up slowly from the floor , the last few sobs still springing unbidden up her throat , and without looking round at the disordered room once more , she picked up her lamp and went down to her bedroom to change . |