Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 2 | She seemed flabbergasted , but rallied and asked me if I would look in at the Gray Mare in Kilburn and say ‘ hello ’ to her son Joe Kelly who worked there . |
| 3 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 4 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 5 | I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’ |
| 6 | It is important to have that sort of relationship where someone can look in from the outside . ’ |
| 7 | He pulled up and we could look down through the grey cloud-mist to the centre of the village where an old stone bridge and several houses were crumbling into the river . |
| 8 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 9 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 10 | All you have to do is look down for the B numbers , now |
| 11 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 12 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 13 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 14 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 15 | From where he stood , high up , he could look down on the roofs of the houses . |
| 16 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 17 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 18 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 19 | Sipping an evening martini at the Top of the Mark ( the glass-encircled roof garden of the Mark Hopkins Hotel high on Nob Hill ) one could look down at the lights of that most cosmopolitan city — over the warehouses and docks of the Embarcadero , over to Grant Avenue and Chinatown , down the cable-car track to Fisherman 's Wharf and beyond to the lights of the Golden Gate Bridge which crossed the bay to Sausolito . |
| 20 | Now let's look down from the bridge . |
| 21 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 22 | Below , the islands of Rum and Canna can be seen and on the horizon to the west you can look over from the hills of South Uist to Barra Head . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone might look over from the gate-towers and catch the gleam of it . |
| 24 | I mean , she do n't even look up at the lights . |
| 25 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 26 | He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator . |
| 27 | Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more . |
| 28 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 29 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 30 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |