Example sentences of "look [adv prt] at the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 2 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
| 3 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |
| 4 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 5 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 7 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
| 8 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
| 9 | Alexei was looking down at the skirts of his coat . |
| 10 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
| 11 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
| 12 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
| 13 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
| 14 | Looking down at the curve of her cheekbone , still wet with tears , he suddenly wanted her , quite overwhelmingly . |
| 15 | The two boys stood looking down at the heaps of feathers . |
| 16 | Looking down at the face of her lover , she smiled , daring to trace the line of his profile with a tender finger . |
| 17 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 18 | She stood on the pavement looking up at the windows of their kitchen on the third floor . |
| 19 | Then Bunny , battling his way against the flow of the children , appeared in the hall and halted for a moment , the belt of his mackintosh undone , looking up at the windows of the rehearsal room . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , ’ he replied , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 21 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 22 | She said she wanted Timothy Gedge to stop looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 23 | They were standing in the stern of the vessel looking up at the back of the cabins . |
| 24 | Li Yuan sat there , looking up at the image of his father 's father , wondering why he felt so little . |
| 25 | When she got to the little clearing she halted , seeing Léonie there on her knees , looking up at the outcrop of rock . |
| 26 | Now to the final part in our series ’ Twenty-four Square Miles ’ looking back at the film of the same name and the lives of the country people it chronicled . |
| 27 | Looking back at the variety of studies conducted on plants in the little field at Henfaes , I feel little temptation to explain the behaviour of organisms within it as perfectly fitted for adaptive optima in an ideally evolved ecosystem . |
| 28 | Looking back at the works of Marx and Engels so far examined we can see that these leave a fairly clear picture concerning some topics , and major uncertainties concerning others . |
| 29 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 30 | William Gallacher , looking back at the activity of the Women 's Peace Crusade in Glasgow at the end of 1917 , put the same point : ‘ … if you have the women with you there are no heights to which you can not rise . ’ |