Example sentences of "[noun] and looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sanchez uncrossed his legs and looked towards the pit . |
| 2 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 3 | Carson stepped out on to the terrace and looked over the rail again . |
| 4 | ‘ However , ’ Corbett continued , clasping his sword belt around his waist , ‘ one thing I do remember is that the preacher was really a gentle man ; he told my mother that Holy Mother Church merely wished to frighten its children except — ’ Corbett narrowed his eyes and looked through the doorway ‘ — for murderers , those who slay , especially the sons of Cain who plot with ice-cold malice the destruction of someone they hate . ’ |
| 5 | Nell raised her eyes and looked at the rest of the body ; and caught her breath . |
| 6 | Wishart narrowed his eyes and looked into the candlelight . |
| 7 | Martin screwed up his eyes and looked towards the hills , saying , ‘ How can you tell from here ? ’ |
| 8 | In the Wheelhouse of RCTV Audemer , Corporal Fisher rubbed his tired eyes and looked along the thirty-three-metre length of the RCL and its now empty cargo deck , capable of carrying up to ninety-six tonnes of vehicles or freight . |
| 9 | She slammed back the driving seat and looked at the unfamiliar dashboard with all its foreign signals . |
| 10 | Although he trained with the England A team during the winter and felt optimistic , he was in pain again before he left for Portugal and looked on the tour as a ‘ make-or-break ’ exercise . |
| 11 | Juliet went to the doorway and looked along the ward , just as a doctor left one room and entered another . |
| 12 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 13 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 14 | Then she got the photographs out of her handbag and looked at the view of the swimming-pool . |
| 15 | Anyway , I just tapped my boot against the bottom of the boat and looked over the river , busy with huge dung barges emptying their putrid waste in midstream . |
| 16 | She ran one finger across the keys of his typewriter and looked across the room to the photo of him which hung on the wall , smiling . |
| 17 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 18 | I found a light and looked round the room . |
| 19 | When they reached the log they stopped side by side and looked across the narrow water towards him . |
| 20 | In any case , most City people put politics to one side and looked at the nascent company as a simple business proposition . |
| 21 | Amanda Fergusson now rested her book on her lap and looked at the ceiling in alarm . |
| 22 | He blew out his fat , purpled cheeks , dug his hands deep in his breeches pockets and looked at the sky with a martyred air . |
| 23 | She went to the window and looked at the sky . |
| 24 | She relatched the window and looked for the deadlock key on the ring , but Carson said , ‘ I 'll see to that later . |
| 25 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 26 | Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films . |
| 27 | She strode over to her single window and looked towards the Cherwell , over the garden . |
| 28 | The house was decorated almost entirely in weedy shades of green and looked to the children like a fish tank that needed cleaning out . |
| 29 | They forced several corners and looked for the height of Simon White and Steve Harris to open up the sometimes nervous ‘ Mill defence . |
| 30 | Now , we 've used this technique in invasive bladder cancer , and we 've quantified the micro-vascularity in a group of invasive cancers and looked at the prognosis and metastasis . |