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

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1 All this time Marcus was standing , now more upright , looking about him at the various speakers , with an interested air .
2 Tuan Ti Fo turned , looking about him at the simple order of his room .
3 Looking about him at the great press of people , the escalator that was a river of people flowing on and on , the crowds that streamed down the stairs so that if a train was held up there would be room for no more to squeeze on to the platform , he wondered why a terrorist group had never thought of putting a bomb in the tube .
4 He glanced back at her , then turned away , looking about him at the cluttered floor , the smoke-blackened walls , the broken ceiling of the room he was in .
5 He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery .
6 ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe .
7 When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often .
8 And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle .
9 I look around me at the massed ranks of Lowestoftians , their vacant faces bearing mute witness to the devastation the town has wrought on their limbic systems .
10 When they had carried him into his cage that afternoon and taken him out of the carrier box in which he had journeyed for so long , he had hardly dared to look around him at the other cages .
11 He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself .
12 Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded .
13 Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him .
14 Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen .
15 Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice .
16 She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered .
17 He looked around him at the other producers and researchers .
18 Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there .
19 Kate looked around her at the busy incident room .
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