Example sentences of "[conj] look [adv] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 2 | But just as Jesus and the following crowd passed under Zacchaeus ' perch , Jesus stopped and looked straight up at him . |
| 3 | Yes , I would like that , ’ she said , and looked straight back at Mrs Quinton , saying , ‘ I will start tomorrow . ’ |
| 4 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 5 | When Oz found the note , we reckoned it might be — it might mean — ’ She doubled her fists and looked frantically up at Mr Hollins . |
| 6 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 7 | She removed the glasses and looked questioningly up at him , her brown eyes still warmly slumbrous . |
| 8 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 9 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 10 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 11 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 12 | Again they sat and looked silently back at him , and again he coughed and turned his head and said a little gruffly , ‘ Dr. George Briant , ’ and sat down . |
| 13 | Mr Beckenham left off patting the dog and looked quickly round at her , a frown creasing his brow . |
| 14 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |