Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 2 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 3 | Have you ever looked down into the hair dryer ? |
| 4 | When words are looked up in the word look-up tree , if the flag for start of compound is set , the compound tree is checked . |
| 5 | As adjacent word positions are also looked up in the word look-up tree , they are checked for whether or not they are the appropriate words to complete the compound . |
| 6 | This use of nursery rhyme looks back to The Waste Land with its ‘ London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down ’ and anticipates another explicit nursery rhyme which , in slightly distorted form , opens section V of ‘ The Hollow Men ’ . |
| 7 | Revising the original articles for Notes towards the Definition of Culture , he complicated his argument 's texture by involving more material relevant to his personal history and to the history of his work , such as that mention of Heart of Darkness which looks back to The Waste Land . |
| 8 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 9 | Except that in that case Timmy would n't be Timmy , and the thought that there might be no Timmy , that there might be some other person altogether occupying his space in the world , fills me with terror , as if I had looked out of the bedroom window and found the solid earth beneath the house had disappeared . |
| 10 | It 's tempting to stop at every village you come across on your travels — at Spili , we paused to drink from a Venetian fountain where stone lionheads spouted clear spring mountain water ; at Preveli we visited the famous monastery which looks out to the south coast ; driving through the Psiloritis mountains we braved the wind to climb down the Kourtaliotiko Gorge and saw the tiny church of St Nicolas . |
| 11 | Square white buildings , three storeys high , sat at regular intervals on the slope , all looking down towards the parade ground . |
| 12 | She was looking down to the garden gate , which at that moment Greg Hocking was closing carefully behind him . |
| 13 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |
| 14 | One hour later , Rose stood at the window of his room looking down at the harbour scene . |
| 15 | Fine views can be had looking down on the north side of the island to Porto da Cruz and the Penha d'Aguia ( the enormous flat-topped rock ) which stands between Faial and Porto da Cruz . |
| 16 | It is built across the Via Sacra at its summit , looking down on the Forum Romanum . |
| 17 | Swirling sand made visibility terrible — I had to fly the aircraft looking down through the side window because I could n't see ahead . |
| 18 | Having read a few of your articles I tried sighting the neck by looking down from the headstock end ( as you frequently suggest ) and the neck appears to be very curved , almost banana shaped ! |
| 19 | Looking in at the observation ward , with its partly screened beds , she hoped that Mike Quinn — poor man — would n't take it into his head to go in a hurry . |
| 20 | She realised with a slight shock that she was staring straight at a man who was looking in through the shop window , staring back . |
| 21 | ‘ The graveyard of St. Giles , ’ Sir James testily remarked , looking up into the night sky . |
| 22 | They 're looking up at the sign board , and holding each other 's hand . |
| 23 | All eyes were looking up at the pit lane screens as every lap , every move , was relayed on to the tube |
| 24 | ( An image from another life : lying below Broken Boy , looking up at the summer sky through the broken reaches of the creature 's antlers . |
| 25 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 26 | Standing looking up at the east front , he knew that the Alpheus lay to the south , on his left , and the Cladeus flowed into it from his right . |
| 27 | Well , ’ I sighed , looking up to the night sky , where the clouds were starting to blot out the few stars that the city lights did not obscure . |
| 28 | In his own Lake District Guide Book he says he came to Ambleside in 1809 , where ‘ he took a House opposite the White Lion ’ , and the etching showing his garden gate looking up to the Market Cross in its original position seems to support this site ; but the date is clearly wrong . |
| 29 | Looking back to the opening statement of the first article last month , we must remember that in the main we are thinking about these designs as decoration rather than as pure picture-making . |
| 30 | His face was a mask of alarm and he was looking back to the office door and the cabinet which was pushed up against it . |