Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 2 | An editorial in The Lancet ( November 10 , 1990 ) entitled ‘ Who 's for tennis ? ’ but which could have just as easily been entitled ‘ Who 's for running ? ’ sums up the present state of the art and looks particularly at a new piece of research carried out on civil servants . |
| 3 | I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street . |
| 4 | Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face . |
| 6 | I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies . |
| 7 | There 're are complicated members of the terror act and it 's not an entirely frivolous suggesting because if you have any doubts that the performance of this County Council in it 's for duty to maintain the rights of way network to a standard appropriate for the traffic , then go and look even at a small part of John 's film . |
| 8 | I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch . |
| 9 | And look down at the lumpy , single bed . |
| 10 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 11 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 12 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 13 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 14 | Cadfael kneeled behind the dead man 's shoulders , and looked closely at the indented wound , in which white points of bone showed in the centre of the encrusted blood . |
| 15 | The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row . |
| 16 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 17 | McAllister finished the right front of the coatee , as Matey called it , cast off , and looked again at the half-grandfather clock with a sigh . |
| 18 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 19 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 20 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
| 21 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
| 22 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 23 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 24 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 25 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 28 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 29 | The feathers of her hat were again sitting in the dregs of Maxie 's coffee , so she hastily retrieved it and looked mournfully at the damaged plumage . |
| 30 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |