Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 2 | Dunvegan Castle stands on the edge of the sea , and looks up along the long narrow Loch Dunvegan to the north-west . |
| 3 | It looks out over a peaceful rural landscape . |
| 4 | Babur looks out over the dark quiet trees to the white lights and feels at home . |
| 5 | The arrow tip came free and I lay on my side in frightful suffering weakness , looking down at a sharp black point sticking out from scarlet wool . |
| 6 | Another few totters and another series of hasty hoppity-skips , and they were looking down at a ramshackle wooden building which sat in a hollow among yellow bushes of gorse . |
| 7 | They were looking down at the new Japanese car factory , Sakata , which had just opened in Humberside . |
| 8 | Mary found herself looking down at the small dapper figure of Sidney Watkins , manager of the Berkeley Chase for the last ten years . |
| 9 | Looking down at the long fair hair flowing over her shoulders , at the skimpy dress , the unlived-in face , he felt immeasurably old for not wanting to sweep her off there and then and make passionate love to her . |
| 10 | Looking down at the pathetic little body lying so still on the table , she said , ‘ I 'd better leave him like this for Dawn to see . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh , she 's exquisite , ’ Ruth breathed ecstatically , looking down at the little dark-haired mite swaddled in a delicate white lace shawl , ‘ absolutely lovely . ’ |
| 12 | She felt cold , and folded her arms across her chest as she walked slowly back to the house , looking down at the bloodstained front step . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , speak of him , ’ said Llewelyn , looking down at the heavy ashen head that lay so still upon his arm . |
| 14 | Looking down on the great White Tower and surrounding ramparts , Folly had to agree . |
| 15 | They were looking down into a long dark cellar , lit by a brazier at one end . |
| 16 | ‘ There 's just one thing I have to tell you Butch , ’ said Sundance , looking down into the foaming white water below , ‘ I ca n't swim . ’ |
| 17 | We stand outside the Glass House for a moment , looking in at the dense green leaves pressing against the panes . |
| 18 | When the Guggenheim Museum finally re-opens later this month ( 28 June ) , after what seem like decades of restoration and renovation , visitors will step into Wright 's great rotunda and , looking up along the famous spiralling ramp , see … no art at all ! |
| 19 | Grant found himself looking up at an attractive dark haired nurse . |
| 20 | She leaned on the files , making her sleeves grey with dust , looking up at the pale blue patches appearing and disappearing above the rooftops outside the window . |
| 21 | She lay back , looking up at the little discoloured ceiling . |
| 22 | ‘ Wing , ’ said Angalo , looking up at the feathery grey bodies looming over him . |
| 23 | Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses . |
| 24 | Maybe in forty years time , people will be looking back at the good old days of the Nineties to see which rising stars started their careers playing North-East venues . |
| 25 | Looking back on a memorable 1991 , 26-year-old Roebuck thinks he was a very fortunate man . |
| 26 | The start of a New Year is a time for looking back on the past 12 months and also a time when self-styled pundits such as myself are unwisely tempted to look into their crystal balls and come up with the predictions that by the end of the year they may well regret |
| 27 | Of course , it was all too immediate , though some of us kept diaries , ; now we select and interpret looking back from a different Personal life and a very different political time . ) |
| 28 | Looking back from the late 1980s it seems that decentralization was not a clean break , nor was it a temporary aberration , since elements of both continue to exist side by side in the British settlement system . |
| 29 | Looking back from the eclectic seventies , the essentially post-sixties seventies , these youngsters of the fifties might well appear a deeply conventional , timid , duffle-jacketed wasp-waisted narrow-based crew , but to Alix , newly emerging from the all-too-personal matrix or patrix of The Heights , they had seemed richly various . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes , ’ said Bernard , ‘ I too feel like going to a hotel somewhere and looking out over a blue Mediterranean sea . |