Example sentences of "looks [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 2 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 3 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 4 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 5 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 6 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 7 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 8 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 9 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 10 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 11 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 12 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 13 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 14 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 15 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 16 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 17 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 18 | Grant looks down into the dark waters . |
| 19 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 20 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 21 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 22 | She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture . |
| 23 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 24 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 25 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 26 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 27 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 28 | He looks up at the class . |
| 29 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 30 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |