Example sentences of "[coord] look into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However old or ill one might be , there is something healing and comforting about stroking the soft fur of a purring cat or looking into the trusting eyes of a faithful dog .
2 Pay good attention and show that you are listening by nodding and looking into the other person 's eyes , but not staring .
3 Then he lay there gasping and looking into the unreadable eyes of Isay .
4 I drain the last of my whisky and look into the empty glass .
5 Joe turned and looked into the kindly face as he said , ‘ I really have n't any family , Len .
6 She leaned slackly against the square pillar in the middle of the row of columns which divided room from terrace , and looked into the snowy distance .
7 Susan turned her heroine over , and looked into the painted face of a dummy .
8 Before that , I recognised the building under the trees , de luxe bedroom suites now , but still the same structure , on the left-hand side of the drive , just before the sweep around to the hotel steps : ‘ The stables which formed part of the rectangle of low buildings out of which that archway to the henyard led , had long been disused but somebody swept them now and then , dusted the curved metal hay racks , wiped manger and woodwork and shone the brass tethering rings so brightly than whenever we pushed a door open and looked into the dusky twilight we were welcomed by a small round gleam of light . ’
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