Example sentences of "we looked [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We yelled to 'er to keep still while we looked round for summat to throw to 'er to catch 'old of . |
| 2 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 3 | So we looked up to him like that . |
| 4 | Not like the old days when we looked up to you . |
| 5 | We looked up from our papers in surprise . |
| 6 | With lungs clutching for oxygen , we looked up from our darkness to the glittering peaks of Kanchenjunga , Sikkim 's holy mountain , sparkling in the early sunrise . |
| 7 | We looked back at the tournament leaders on the seventeenth . |
| 8 | We looked back at the crumbling house . |
| 9 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 10 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 11 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 12 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 13 | We looked down over the police barrier at the upside-down Golf below us . |
| 14 | Once , we looked down on people with interests , with hobbies . |
| 15 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 16 | On the fell edge near Brackensgill we looked down to where the river Dee meanders through the valley like a slow-worm . |
| 17 | So we gritted our teeth and set off along the Pyg-motorway past the army 's blasted and unforgivable folly , writhing and frothing and swearing and laughing aghast — the vapours thickening the while , so that when we looked down from Bwlch Moch , Llydaw was rimless , leaden obscurity and our hair mist-beaded like grizzled Rastafarians . |
| 18 | Guess what we saw when we looked in at their sitting-room window ? |
| 19 | As we looked out of the shattered window and across the field opposite to where the Corporal was pointing , another burst of fire hit the house . |
| 20 | We looked out of the window and saw to our astonishment , a procession of women rounding the street corner . |
| 21 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 22 | But if it were an ancient castle standing there against the skyline , if what we looked out at tomorrow morning was a row of turrets , we 'd probably be saying how magnificent it is . ’ |
| 23 | We looked out over the bay to the houses directly opposite . |
| 24 | We looked out over a bare open landscape , its thin grass patched with sandy stretches . |
| 25 | The day before our return , as we looked out over the battlements , we saw a succession of thick black clouds driving slowly in over the sand flats and camel grass . |