Example sentences of "look [adv] [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 2 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 3 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 4 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 5 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 6 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 7 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 8 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 9 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 10 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |
| 11 | The Doctor looked sadly down at the bodies . |