Example sentences of "look [prep] [pers pn] 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 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
| 6 | He turned away , looking round him at the great nest of screens and machinery . |
| 7 | ‘ Sit down , sit down , ’ said Owen hurriedly , looking around him at the crowded cafe . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
| 10 | And she did , leaving a very bewildered Ellie to look round her at the well-equipped kitchen and the gently steaming kettle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 17 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |
| 18 | She looked round her at the luxurious suite and shuddered . |
| 19 | He looked around him at the other producers and researchers . |
| 20 | Then she looked around her at the other smiling faces , and remembered why the policemen were there . |
| 21 | Kate looked around her at the busy incident room . |