Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] look [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Where Lewis looked at the world around him , even when he was writing autobiography , Leavis looked ever more attentively at himself .
2 He was gone , and Morse looked around the area somewhat fecklessly .
3 Men like Jeremiah and Ezekiel looked for the day when God would forge a new covenant , or agreement , with men .
4 Having perfected their methods — and made fortunes — at home , German discounters such as Lidl & Schwarz and Aldi looked to the rest of Europe .
5 Both Sophie and Zeno looked towards the sound .
6 But on Sunday night we were n't in , and Billy looked in the kitchen .
7 She hiccuped again , and Rourke looked around the office distractedly , a grimace shaping his mouth .
8 Alan continued to work hard at his course , and Carolyn looked after the baby and kept house .
9 Thunder boomed in the sky overhead and Rohmer looked at the ceiling again .
10 Bravd and Weasel looked at the figure , now hopping across the road with one foot in a stirrup .
11 Immediately a great roar of applause broke out , and Gurney looked at the audience , and this time his self-satisfied smirk seemed to be so obvious , to George at any rate , that he could not understand how the audience too could fail to see it .
12 For Rolle , because God looks on the heart and not the outward appearance , and judges the will not the deed , it seems self-evident that the contemplative life , seeking to be one with God 's love , must be preferred , because actives are too distracted by what they do .
13 A Dangerous Man — Lawrence After Arabia looks at the maverick hero not on the battlefield but in London and Paris after World War I.
14 When Pascoe looked into the hallway , he saw Singer leaning against the door of his room , his back half-turned .
15 In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed .
16 But Madge had n't been pleased : she had n't shown any emotion at all when Marie looked round the door .
17 The computer started to print out the bill as Adam looked at the picture on the front page of the newspaper .
18 The interesting thing , just in passing , that particular time of the year was not actually harvest time , and as Jesus looked over the harvest field it was n't the harvest field that was ripened corn , it was actually full of green shoots , and it is the harvest now is ripe , it 's plenteous because he was n't talking about that , he was talking about men and women .
19 God looked at the earth , and the words are the same as were used when God looked at the earth on the days of creation .
20 As Mary looked at the hole , she noticed something almost buried there .
21 As Mary looked at the couple , the fire seemed to die in her .
22 As Michael looked at the man sitting opposite , his fat ugly face grinning like a Cheshire cat 's , he felt an impulse to smash his fist into his teeth .
23 When Tony looked in the catalogue there was the Lagonda .
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