Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ A — Adam ? ’ she faltered , clumsily pushing the damp tendrils of hair from her face , as she slowly lifted her head to look up at him . |
| 32 | ‘ Excuse me , ’ she began , tilting her head to look up . |
| 33 | Luke moved round the table and came closer , so that she had to tilt her head to look up into his face , and that — and only that ! — increased the whirling inside her head . |
| 34 | Turning her head to look out of the window again , she felt her heart drumming with rage . |
| 35 | Robyn lay on her back looking up at the cloudless sky . |
| 36 | They can t risk a roll in the gutter , can they now , with all their factory-hands looking on ? |
| 37 | Her father looked up . |
| 38 | Her father looked up from the newspaper and nodded . |
| 39 | Benjamin paused and we all stared at the young woman now sitting back in her chair looking up at the rafters , tapping the table top and humming a tune to herself . |
| 40 | He put the holdall on the table then moved behind her chair to look over her shoulder at the entry she was underlining with a fingernail . |
| 41 | Regardless of what the manufacturers of integrated software may tell us it can still be a time consuming process to off-load the document from the wordprocessor and pull in the data base and its files to look up a simple telephone number . |
| 42 | He lifted her chin to look down into her eyes , a dangerous look . |
| 43 | The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising . |
| 44 | Horsewatch encourages its members to look out for each others animals and to improve their own security measures . |
| 45 | The stained-glass knights and their ladies looked down their noses at us rollicking serfs . |
| 46 | Their selves were hidden , and their faces looked out of hiding . |
| 47 | When she walked into the kitchen her mother looked up and said , ‘ Where on earth have you been at this hour . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'm afraid , Hari , ’ her mother looked up at her with large eyes , ‘ I 'm that afraid . ’ |
| 49 | Her mother looked up from her letters , and gazed hard at her daughter . |
| 50 | ‘ It has n't been any good for you , ’ her mother looked about to be certain Joseph was not with earshot even thought he had just gone off to fish in the lake , ‘ all this … ’ she added , unnecessarily , casting an accusing look in the direction of the inn parlour . |
| 51 | When I first arrived here , shortly after Margaret Thatcher arrived in Downing Street , both the country and the firm spent all their time looking back to past glories . |
| 52 | Before Tamar could protest that she intended to call her son George , her mother-in-law looked up from the child . |
| 53 | Maybe he was giving her time to look around , but now she did n't want to . |
| 54 | The three other members of her party looked around in surprise as the blonde gave a squeal of delight and walked unsteadily across to Yanto . |
| 55 | His policies looked back to the more aggressive activities of his father ; he fought the Alans , and he attacked Arles . |
| 56 | ‘ There 's your Dad now , ’ said his Mum looking out of the window . |
| 57 | ‘ Look , ’ said his Mum looking back at the house . |
| 58 | He put the paper down on the table and his Mum looked over his shoulder . |
| 59 | He was craning his neck to look up but nothing was visible except the rolling grey mist that had almost reached the jeep . |
| 60 | Then she leant forward and kissed him on the mouth , brushed his lips , stroked them with hers , watched his eyes looking back at her . |