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Example sentences of "look [prep] [pron] at the [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	So I 've looked at it at the end of day and thought well my God !
2	Tallis said , amazed , looking about her at the dark , snow-striped land .
3	She turned , looking about her at the stables .
4	Looking about him at the others , Christian said , ‘ There !
5	What point in having , I suppose it 's my fault , I should have read these erm , bits added to it more carefully earlier , but it does n't seem to have anything in their about anybody who is actually claiming a carer 's allowance from looking after somebody at the time , and whether we should have a phrase in there that it does n't include anybody that is collecting from the D S S S or anything else for a carer 's allowance anyway , because you do n't want to double pay anybody .
6	Obviously she is very upset being left alone in a strange country and we are looking after her at the police station .
7	‘ His neighbour is looking after it at the moment but I do n't think she 'll be prepared to keep it indefinitely .
8	‘ What do you want ? ’ he demanded , looking past her at the paladin , who was brandishing his sword .
9	Looking round her at the cushions , Ellie spotted one with a Regency man and woman on it .
10	She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship .
11	I 've got your red book here cos I was looking at it at the weekend .
12	Well , we 're all looking at it at the moment of , of course , but some of our first impressions are that for example on global warming , there 's no commitment to , to a carbon taxation .
13	He rubbed his chin absently on the top of Tessa 's head , so that he could look over it at the girl .
14	No you ca n't look at them at the moment .
15	She tried to recall her life before the siege and the heads of young officers turning to look at her at the Calcutta racecourse .
16	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 .
17	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 .
18	Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert .
19	All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’
20	He looked about him at the decoration of the study .
21	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 .
22	Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings .
23	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 .
24	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 .
25	They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station .
26	He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls .
27	He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day .
28	She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom .
29	She would know at once when the right people entered the from the moment she looked upon them at the top of the wide staircase .
30	But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms .