Example sentences of "[coord] look [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 2 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 3 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 4 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 6 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 7 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 8 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 9 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 10 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 11 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 12 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 13 | I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June . |
| 14 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |
| 15 | ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’ |
| 16 | This warning whetted my appetite for I used to crawl to the edge and look down at the water which was usually quite near the top as this part of the city is barely above river level . |
| 17 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 18 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 19 | My left foot ledged on the hinge , and look in at the byre 's |
| 20 | I did n't know the man who stepped out and looked straight at the door which the old buffer porter had managed to close . |
| 21 | When the coffee was done , he turned towards Oliver and looked closely at the boy . |
| 22 | Mr Crumwallis jumped , and looked nervously at the instrument . |
| 23 | He abandoned this line of observation and looked carefully at the man inside the suit . |
| 24 | Miss Honey paused and looked carefully at the child . |
| 25 | They re-climbed the steps to the granite flags and there Karl turned and looked again at the statue , his face still sunken and sour . |
| 26 | Jeanne remained silent , and looked fixedly at the floor . |
| 27 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 28 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 29 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 30 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |