Example sentences of "and look [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth . |
| 2 | But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them . |
| 3 | ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass . |
| 4 | ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows . |
| 5 | No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight . |
| 6 | I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd . |
| 7 | Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound . |
| 8 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 9 | I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery . |
| 10 | ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’ |
| 11 | This warning whetted my appetite for I used to crawl to the edge and look down at the water which was usually quite near the top as this part of the city is barely above river level . |
| 12 | Then step into your body and look back at the scene . |
| 13 | what must I do ? and look back at the house |
| 14 | My left foot ledged on the hinge , and look in at the byre 's |
| 15 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 16 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 17 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 18 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
| 19 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 20 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 21 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 22 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 23 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 24 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 25 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 26 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 27 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 28 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 29 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 30 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |