Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours before he died , the King wrote to the woman he looked on as a mother |
| 2 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 3 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 4 | There was a window in her bedroom , but it just looked on to a tiny area and did n't let in much light . |
| 5 | It looked on to a pool , one of several small pools created by the removal of clay for the reserve 's perimeter wall . |
| 6 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 7 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 8 | Charles looked on with an expression of distaste which Miles took for admiration . |
| 9 | Ratagan relieved her of one of them whilst she looked on with an eyebrow arched . |
| 10 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 11 | The Princess of Wales , her face almost lost beneath a huge black velvet hat , looked on from a balcony at the nearby Foreign Office where she stood silently with the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal . |
| 12 | Five London dealers plus Harrods , which plans a display next week , carried off nearly half the lots while Vietnam government officials , the vendors , looked on from the balcony . |
| 13 | While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne . |
| 14 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 15 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 16 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 17 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 18 | Alice looked in at a scene of comfort . |
| 19 | He approached , and looked in at the boy . |
| 20 | She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window . |
| 21 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 22 | When Coffin returned from central London late that night , he looked in at the TAS office . |
| 23 | Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection . |
| 24 | " I just looked in for a moment to see how you were getting on together . |
| 25 | Visiting a music school in Melbourne , the royal couple looked in on a cello class that was in full swing , supervised by a delightful seventy-eight-year-old professor , Henri Touzeau . |
| 26 | He looked in on the President . |
| 27 | She made her escape from the table , boiled the kettle and looked in on the children . |
| 28 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 29 | One particular sadistic character opened up his observation hatch while we were groping around a smoke filled tank , looked in with a satanic grin and shouted , " Ha ! |
| 30 | On her way , she passed the room with the light on , and she looked in with a stab of surprised longing at the cosy scene inside . |