Example sentences of "[verb] look [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 2 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 3 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 4 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 5 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 6 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 7 | They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county . |
| 8 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 9 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 10 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 11 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
| 12 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 13 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 14 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 15 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure how high we went but I remember looking down at the surf . |
| 17 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 18 | If you like to look back at the cathedral office in an hour , I 'll see it 's ready for you . |
| 19 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 20 | ‘ But I ca n't resist looking back at the history of rock and having this addiction to the great pop music that 's been made , whether it 's T-Rex or Blondie . |
| 21 | But Professor Avenarius was late , and I kept watching the woman ; she was alone at the pool , standing waist-deep in the water , and she kept looking up at the young lifeguard in sweatpants who was teaching her to swim . |
| 22 | I kept looking up at the Royal Box and thinking , ‘ Stevie Foster would have stood there . ’ ’ |
| 23 | Lets look back at the best of the season 's action now … through the eyes of the best players of the season . |
| 24 | Marcus was standing looking down at the woman . |
| 25 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
| 26 | I stared at him because he sounded so cold , but he was sitting looking down at the glass which he held on his knees and I could n't see his face . |
| 27 | I 'm sitting looking out at the darkness and the sea . |
| 28 | A lot of people did look out at the station , but they saw nothing strange . |
| 29 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 30 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |