Example sentences of "[verb] look [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 2 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 3 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 4 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 5 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 6 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 7 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 8 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 9 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 10 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 11 | just in Batham all those removes having to look out for the sixth form smoking |
| 12 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 13 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 14 | Lets look back at the best of the season 's action now … through the eyes of the best players of the season . |
| 15 | His concerns are moral and religious , and in certain respects , therefore , although they appear to be out of line with the literary culture of Sidonius and his sixth-century followers , they do look back to the moral response which met the first wave of the barbarian invasions . |
| 16 | If you like a mild cheese , buy pasteurised Stilton , but for the true flavour of the cheese , do look out for the unpasteurised cheeses . |
| 17 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 18 | After dinner we would sit looking out over the three arms of the lake and talk until , drowsy with sun , swimming , food and wine , we went off to bed . |
| 19 | She had to look up at the glittering green eyes ; she could n't help herself ; she had to watch as Fincara stooped down before her , white hands on knees , and sang — |
| 20 | ‘ I suppose you want me to go first , ’ said Caspar as they stood looking up at the open window , which was grimy and smeary , but much lower than the other windows . |
| 21 | Thiercelin stood looking out of the french window at the end of the long narrow room that was Fedorov 's library . |
| 22 | Instead , she went to the window and stood looking out at the vast starry sky . |
| 23 | Ianthe moved over to the balcony and stood looking out into the noisy Roman night . |
| 24 | She stood looking down at the tiny fireplace . |
| 25 | They both stood looking down at the poor sufferer , neither speaking . |
| 26 | Shutting the door softly behind her , Theda tiptoed to the bed and stood looking down at the still figure in some alarm . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | David sat looking down at the empty wine glass that he was turning round and round between his hands . |
| 29 | We have to look back to the first quarter of 1988 to see a time when construction output was so low . |