Example sentences of "he look [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
2 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
3 | He looked round at the other rabbits , who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself . |
4 | He looked round at the other diners . |
5 | As he pulled himself out , he looked round among the sopping rabbits in the alders . |
6 | He looked around at the two other tables occupied in the Bar-Annexe . |
7 | He looked over to the childlike form on his bed and felt a protective instinct so strong he almost wept . |
8 | Turning slightly , and almost against his own will , he looked over at the dark graves . |
9 | He looked up into the black sky and waved his fist at the stars . |
10 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
11 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
12 | He looked up at the half-moon . |
13 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
14 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
15 | He looked up at the lined , seamed face of the rat-catcher , framed by his black , tarry leather hood . |
16 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
17 | He looked up at the great tower soaring above him . |
18 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
19 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
20 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
21 | He looked up at the clearing sky , darkening now into dusk . |
22 | He looked up at the white tower . |
23 | He looked up at the formidable stone keep of Gloucester Castle towering three storeys above him and wondered if there was danger within , although his task was straightforward enough . |
24 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
25 | He looked out at the green fields and trees . |
26 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
27 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
28 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
29 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |
30 | He looked out across the darkening moor , its becks and mires , its hills d bony ridges of granite . |