Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [coord] look [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 She was shortish and had an attractive way of cocking her head on one side and looking up with big dark eyes and a wryly amused smile .
2 Bob drew the curtain to one side and looked out of the window .
3 Fatally , she twisted her head to one side and looked back at him .
4 I 've always liked chickens — the way they hold their heads on one side and look up at you with one eye .
5 And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man .
6 Suppressing a grunt of pain , Defries lifted herself on to one elbow and looked round .
7 He lifted himself on to one elbow and looked down at her .
8 She propped herself up on one elbow and looked down at his face in the starlight , her mind tangling on the mental arithmetic .
9 She lifted herself up on one elbow and looked down at his , at his face drawn with sorrow and the love that would sacrifice itself for her selfishness — and so needlessly .
10 He had a picture of her sitting permanently on the edge of a table at Dubal 's swinging one leg and looking out at him from the group she was with .
11 Well when the sirens went at the beginning , what few rifles we 'd got , he 'd er take us out and string we out along this brook , a rifle every so often and and facing one way and looking round to see when anything goes up and in case anybody come over or anything come over and er that was the initial start .
12 Go back a few hundred years and look around : there are politicians squabbling for power , priests saving souls , etc .
13 So when I went creaking up the winding back staircase to the two attics and looked in through their respective doors ( ‘ Do n't touch , dear …
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