Example sentences of "she look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold . |
4 | She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | She looked around at the fields . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | She looked up at the books on the shelves and reached for the closest . |
9 | She looked up at the advertisements above the windows . |
10 | She looked up from the minutes she was collating . |
11 | She looked out over the rows of eager faces waiting for her to justify her educational policy , and she could n't think of a word to say . |
12 | Almost touch them with my hand , thought Jenny Dale as she looked out on the skyscrapers , then turned her attention to flying the small , six-seater , twin-engined Piper Seneca on to the final approach . |
13 | There were tears in her eyes as she looked down across the footlights to the man in the front row , on his feet now , applauding . |
14 | She looked down at the roses . |
15 | She looked down at the notes on the small side table , and then pulled off her wore framed pince-nez . |
16 | She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent . |
17 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
18 | She looked back at the stepping-stones , over which the river was rushing noisily . |
19 | She looked back at the waves and pulled hard and carefully with her oars . |