Example sentences of "[pers pn] look [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked carefully at the little black notes on their thin black lines . |
| 32 | He looked pensively at the topmost one again , and summoned his chief of spies . |
| 33 | He looked away at the dense thicket where the three hounds were working . |
| 34 | Now he looked again at the two betting-slips that lay on the table in front of him ; then turned to the back of the Business section for the Sport , his eye running down the results of the previous day 's racing at Fontwell Park . |
| 35 | On his way he passed the church , where he looked closely at the old tower door . |
| 36 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 37 | He looked sidelong at the black box , half expecting it to explode or emit strange musical tones . |
| 38 | He looked vaguely at the little stream running beside the road . |
| 39 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 40 | He looked across at the young T'ang of Africa , and smiled . |
| 41 | He looked across at the central desk . |
| 42 | Colonel Smith had been the thief , with Trent 's habit of loyalty as the accomplice ; the Latinos were merely the instruments , Trent thought as he looked across at the thick shape of Pedro Gomez seated on the windward side of the cockpit . |
| 43 | He looked significantly at the little battery clock on his desk . |
| 44 | He looked doubtfully at the rain-filled skies . |
| 45 | He looked twice at the hurrying man , but decided that , like the others , he was what he seemed to be . |
| 46 | He looked aloft at the distant ceiling , and at the expanse of sparsely-curtained window space . |
| 47 | He looked pointedly at the four-poster bed with its rumpled coverlet , then back at Sarella . |
| 48 | He looked pointedly at the solitary and tarnished crown on Woolley 's shoulder . |
| 49 | But let us look again at the quirky , fortuitous way in which evolution favours particular phenotypes . |
| 50 | This has forced us to look afresh at the regular London days and , with the prompting of a number of the most regular attenders , we have decided to drop the June day , which in recent years has had a low attendance . |