Example sentences of "[coord] look [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind . |
| 2 | ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion . |
| 3 | She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon . |
| 4 | I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June . |
| 5 | You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath . |
| 6 | Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape . |
| 7 | Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door . |
| 8 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 9 | I did n't know the man who stepped out and looked straight at the door which the old buffer porter had managed to close . |
| 10 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 11 | When the coffee was done , he turned towards Oliver and looked closely at the boy . |
| 12 | Cadfael kneeled behind the dead man 's shoulders , and looked closely at the indented wound , in which white points of bone showed in the centre of the encrusted blood . |
| 13 | Mr Crumwallis jumped , and looked nervously at the instrument . |
| 14 | He abandoned this line of observation and looked carefully at the man inside the suit . |
| 15 | The Trunchbull flicked her head round and looked carefully at the small girl with dark hair and deep brown eyes sitting in the second row . |
| 16 | Miss Honey paused and looked carefully at the child . |
| 17 | When Sara awoke and looked outside at the deep cloudless blue sky , she guessed that her hostess was also scanning it with equal pleasure . |
| 18 | They re-climbed the steps to the granite flags and there Karl turned and looked again at the statue , his face still sunken and sour . |
| 19 | McAllister finished the right front of the coatee , as Matey called it , cast off , and looked again at the half-grandfather clock with a sigh . |
| 20 | Jeanne remained silent , and looked fixedly at the floor . |
| 21 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 22 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 23 | James 's eyes filled suddenly with tears , he wiped it them and looked disbelievingly at the wet on his fingers . |
| 24 | She sat up , flicked on her torch and looked thoughtfully at the cabin window . |
| 25 | He held up his forefinger and looked questioningly at the District Chief . |
| 26 | He put a large mug of steaming black coffee in front of Connon and looked enquiringly at the stuff which littered the table . |
| 27 | The feathers of her hat were again sitting in the dregs of Maxie 's coffee , so she hastily retrieved it and looked mournfully at the damaged plumage . |
| 28 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 29 | She lifted the hem of her nightie and looked determinedly at the scar on her thigh . |
| 30 | Two of the girls were terrified and looked pleadingly at the third ; so Roksanda gathered up the precious stones . |