Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own child looked through me with her wide , hazel , dark-fringed eyes and cut me dead . |
| 2 | ’ But the slit-eyes looked through him as if he did not exist . |
| 3 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 4 | Dreaming Lee took to this camera immediately and held it delicately and lifted the front-flap and looked through it in order to focus on something and take a picture of it . |
| 5 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 6 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 7 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 8 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 9 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 10 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 11 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 12 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 13 | The Captain looked about him with disgust . |
| 14 | He looked about him with interest . |
| 15 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 16 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 17 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 18 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 19 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 20 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 21 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 22 | The words faded and she looked about her with slightly flushed cheeks . |
| 23 | Nona looked about her with interest , trying to identify which of the young men in her vicinity could possibly be policemen . |
| 24 | Polly looked about her in amazement as they flew higher and higher , and higher still across fields and meadows , until they reached the river that ran from the village to the town . |
| 25 | Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment . |
| 26 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 27 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 28 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 29 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 30 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |