Example sentences of "she look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
2 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
3 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
4 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
5 | Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony . |
6 | She looked round for the entrance . |
7 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
8 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
9 | Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early . |
10 | She looked around at the fields . |
11 | She looked around in the hope of recognising some landmarks . |
12 | She looked around in the light of the headlamps . |
13 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
14 | As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her . |
15 | She looked up at the outline of him , the wild hair and the shadowed eyes . |
16 | She looked up at the girl beside her . |
17 | She looked up at the ceiling and shivered . |
18 | She looked up at the ceiling , where one of the room 's many odd columns flared into the flat , thick , pale green glass . |
19 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
20 | Instinctively she looked up at the sky . |
21 | Pushing her way through the hordes of little black boys with bones through their noses , she looked up at the sky . |
22 | She looked up at the sky , where vultures were gathering . |
23 | She looked up at the clock , wondering if there was time for a pot of tea before lunch , but deciding that the second gong would sound soon , and she could wait . |
24 | She looked up at the lorry . |
25 | The fortune-teller lay on her back behind the low wall and she was dying , or perhaps she was dead , for her eyes were open and she looked up at the stars . |
26 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
27 | Shaking violently in the intolerable hold of a passion as bitter as it was irresistible and torrid , she looked up at the man who had done this to her , his body before and above her , glistening and dark , darker still where it was shadowed with hair . |
28 | She looked up at the statue and laughed . |
29 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
30 | Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks . |