Example sentences of "look [adv prt] at a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Judith Grossman 's novel , Her Own Terms , published in 1988 , looks back at a working-class scholarship-girl in the 1950s , who goes to Oxford from a South London Grammar school ; Grossman shows in passing how formidably well-read and linguistically equipped her heroine was . |
| 2 | On the relief the girl Athena , without aegis or shield ( she is shown now even without helmet , or with it in her hand ) leans on her spear , hand on hip , looking down at a small stele . |
| 3 | They had their own windows with dark blue oil-cloth roller-blinds through which Dot could see into the compartment of the train alongside just like looking over at a next-door house . |
| 4 | She stood outside looking up at a creamy moon , fearful lest some bat might fly into her hair . |
| 5 | We soon realise that we are , effectively , looking up at a red ceiling , where the four walls of the room , seen in perspective below , are all decorated with a brace of fishermen . |
| 6 | There were further rattles of machine-gun fire and Rex found himself looking up at a troubled sky . |
| 7 | As a patient bandaged from head to foot , Crawford had to deliver only one line , but he forgot it , lifted the bed sheet to look down at a prompt card and uttered the immortal words , ‘ Have you seen this , nurse ? ’ |
| 8 | Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting . |
| 9 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 10 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 11 | Ashley looked up at a grey ball of a cloud which hung directly overhead . |
| 12 | She stood by the window , and looked out at a grey cat on a grey wall in the grey road . |