Example sentences of "[noun sg] he looked [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Superintending Constable Giles Aplin mounted his horse he looked down at Tom and Seb . |
| 2 | From the outside terrace he looked down on to his own tiled patio , no more than about twelve feet beneath . |
| 3 | At that moment he looked up and saw Oliver watching him . |
| 4 | It brought a painful flush to her cheeks and at that moment he looked up and saw her . |
| 5 | For a moment he looked out across the water meadow , enjoying the night 's stillness , the beauty of the full moon overhead . |
| 6 | After a brief goodnight and not even a peck on the cheek he looked down , then said , ‘ I 'll be in touch some time , Sarella . ’ |
| 7 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 8 | With reluctance he looked up from papers he was studying . |
| 9 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 10 | One day he looked up at her , met her eyes . |
| 11 | After only a minute he looked up , frowning . |
| 12 | With church bells ringing in his tired head he looked down and saw , 300 feet below , the woman in the red petticoat . |
| 13 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 14 | After a while he looked up . |
| 15 | Standing in the sitting-room he looked around in bewilderment . |
| 16 | When Hoppy bade the Colonel good morning he looked up and , after a pause , said : ‘ My boy , very few gentlemen ever have any breakfast and none talk at it . ’ |
| 17 | Hours before he died , the King wrote to the woman he looked on as a mother |
| 18 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 19 | Somehow the expanse of green and white cloth cascaded from her trembling hands towards the ground , and as she muttered furiously at it under her breath he looked round and saw her . |
| 20 | From the age of awareness he looked out over his Welsh battlements at a foreign culture , for English and the monied English siege were all about him . |
| 21 | Hopping awkwardly to the door he looked out and caught a glimpse of Carrie standing there dressed only in a linen slip , with one arm clutching a bundle of bedclothes , the other holding a candle . |
| 22 | At the door he looked back at Newman . |
| 23 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 24 | Either way , in later life he looked back on that experience as evidence that dancing could be part of everyday life in a way that it is not for most Europeans . |
| 25 | During the journey he looked out of the window . |
| 26 | Startled by a sudden noise he looked out to see a Junkers Ju 88 flying low but , luckily , into mist . |
| 27 | When he reached the branch-off track to the farm he looked up at the farmhouse . |
| 28 | Having climbed the bank he looked down on her and smiled as he said , ‘ I did n't recognise you in civvies . |
| 29 | In the end he looked back on Dulles as ‘ a worthy and interesting adversary — he always kept us on our toes ’ . |
| 30 | Suddenly , his hand shot out , grabbed her wrist , flicked her against his hard body , and as she gave a hoarse groan of fierce excitement he looked down at her , breathing hard . |