Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.

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1 In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder .
2 She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others .
3 He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle .
4 At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing .
5 He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book .
6 She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry .
7 She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind .
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