Example sentences of "[coord] looked [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He closed his book with a snap and looked past Hari to where Craig was bending over the fire . |
| 2 | She turned and looked towards Nigger , who was standing in the doorway talking to one of the locals he knew . |
| 3 | He climbed into the back seat and looked towards Annie 's cabin , making little attempt to conceal himself or keep low . |
| 4 | Robyn got out of the car and looked through railings across the car park to a brick office block and a tall windowless building behind it , a prospect almost as depressing as the prison she had seen that morning . |
| 5 | And looked with horror on these territories |
| 6 | She sat down at the table and looked with disfavour at the glass in front of her . |
| 7 | She opened the case and looked with dismay at the flimsy green silk nightdress lying on top of the matching gown . |
| 8 | Aragorn puts down Andúril at the gate of the Golden Hall , and declares its name : ‘ The guard stepped back and looked with amazement ’ . |
| 9 | Woodruffe jumped out of the car in a panic and looked for Woolley . |
| 10 | Dissidents forced Andrews out of office and looked for leadership to Sir Basil Brooke ( later Viscount Brookeborough , q.v. ) , the minister of commerce and war production , who had been completely identified with the war effort . |
| 11 | The city at night intimidated me : the piss-heads , bums , derelicts and dealers shouted and looked for fights . |
| 12 | An hour later she went to the church and looked for Daniel Marsh . |
| 13 | He sent someone to round up loose horses and looked for Cormac and Ferteth . |
| 14 | In contrast to Adenauer , Erhard always welcomed discussion and looked for consensus . |
| 15 | I took the woman 's advice and looked for work paid by the hour . |
| 16 | Who did n't riot , but got on his bike and looked for work ? |
| 17 | Leibniz took a different route and looked for clues to particularity within the monads themselves , but the only " criterion " he was able to produce was his " principle of indiscernibles " , and eventually he was forced to introduce the additional metaphysical postulate of " sufficient reason " in order to safeguard the existential uniqueness of his monads . |
| 18 | Lucille stopped , turned to look at the girl once more then , intuitively , she knew the answer and looked for confirmation into d'Alembord 's worried face . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , I thought I 'd best get as far from Dalston as I could , so I came this side of London Bridge and looked for lodgings . |
| 20 | From that time on , it seemed as though I loathed myself and looked for ways to punish my body . |
| 21 | Even supporters such as Huxley treated it as only a secondary mechanism and looked for alternatives to supplement it . |
| 22 | He turned away from the body and looked for Fiver among the rabbits behind him . |
| 23 | He got away from her and looked for Dangerfield . |
| 24 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |
| 25 | Cabochon wiped his mouth and looked at Jordan with panicked eyes . |
| 26 | Maybe Carter 's — ’ He stopped and looked at Marcus . |
| 27 | Portia laughed and looked at Katherine 's shapely figure swathed in blue silk , the glow of her bare shoulders darkened by the sun . |
| 28 | He sighed and looked at Nicholson . |
| 29 | While other girls with real mothers resisted all the attempts to gentrify themselves , Eve and Mother Francis studied books on etiquette and looked at magazines to see how nice people dressed , and to pick up any hints on behaviour . |
| 30 | He lit up a cigarette and looked at Kelly thoughtfully . |