Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed there are strong resemblances between them , especially when one looks back on them from the present day and across all that has happened in theology since Ritschl . |
| 2 | And she might have accepted that but for the wry flicker in the eyes of the reflection that had looked back at her from the bathroom mirror . |
| 3 | Looking down below them from the top , they saw that a small crater with the remains of a dried-up lake in it was emitting sulphurous vapours from several points . |
| 4 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 5 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 6 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 7 | Meredith , looking up at it in the sunshine , felt five years old again . |
| 8 | On the narrow bridge he stood in front of her again , blocking her way , looking back past her at the House . |
| 9 | She slipped it off its hanger and held it against herself and it was almost as if the face looking back at her from the mirror across it was fourteen years old again . |
| 10 | Looking back at her from the mirror , with eyes like saucers , was a small , olive-green frog . |
| 11 | He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with . |
| 12 | The great , distinguished people of the world do not know that these beggars can in the pride of their souls , look down on them as the unfortunate ones , who are left on the shore for their worldly uses , but whose life ever misses the touch of the lover 's arms . ’ |
| 13 | look down on you in the middle class ! |
| 14 | Singly and in groups , these aristocratic figures look down on us from the walls of the Crousel-Robelin-Bama gallery , proud survivors of a vanishing world . |
| 15 | International art , culture and politics , as immortalised by Pino Settanni , look down on us from the walls of the Hadrian Thomas gallery until 28 June . |
| 16 | It 's alright , I 'll look out for you in the Pentam |
| 17 | Above , Ruth 's white face looked down on her from the window . |
| 18 | She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence . |
| 19 | The villagers looked down at it with the satisfaction of those who could n't swim and certainly would n't want to try . |
| 20 | like a soft telescope , that it looked up along it at the sky |
| 21 | When at last the child was comforted , Māilo looked up at me across the fire . |
| 22 | I had reached the letter " C " and as the word " Castration " looked up at me from the page I was jerked back to Rory . |
| 23 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 24 | He looked up at her from the bed , his cheeks flushed with the exertions of his performance , the taps on his shoes exposed to her scrutiny . |
| 25 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 26 | Iago looked up at him over the wine with a face suddenly bright , astonished and disarmed , and burst into a muted crow of laughter . |
| 27 | By the time Vidal Sassoon had finished with her Paula 's long fair locks had been shorn to a sharp geometric shape and she scarcely recognised the reflection that looked back at her from the mirror . |
| 28 | She hardly recognised the vibrant image that looked back at her from the glass with wide , baffled eyes bright through weak , stupid tears . |
| 29 | They looked back at him with the bright eyes of rats in old people 's faces and when he asked them a question . |
| 30 | A different Katherine looked out at her from the mirror . |