Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were the first to greet me , their brown eyes looking up , asking silently and then audibly for presents , knowing that my cases must hold something for each of them , if only a ribbon or a sweet . |
| 2 | ‘ Sausage ! ’ said Breeze , and her peculiar pet looked up and winked . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , ’ says Howard to a girl called Rose he meets at a party , as they sit on the stairs around two in the morning , talking seriously , her dark eyes looking up seriously into his , ‘ I 'm the best mountain-designer in the universe . |
| 4 | When she regained consciousness she was lying on a bench with her future sisters-in-law looking down at her . |
| 5 | Many of the seafront hotels on the long esplanade have become nursing homes or been demolished for cliff-like apartment blocks with their individual balconies looking out to sea . |
| 6 | Her little eyes look up at me so trustfully , and she sleeps a lot and rarely cries . |
| 7 | Her diving buddy looks on |
| 8 | Sometimes I would hold her lightly by the finger-tips and try to steer the conversation to matters of the heart , but she would blush and her beautiful eyes look down . |
| 9 | Her small room looked out on the back yard , and she had a window box . |
| 10 | With great hopes for the future , Nikki , a former aerobics and fitness teacher , is keen to encourage all her former pupils to look out for her when she comes back . |
| 11 | I picture richly rewarding learning environments : I walk , unnoticed , into a creative activities period in Jos ( Nigeria ) where the children remain too absorbed in their various tasks to look up at a stranger , however unfamiliar . |
| 12 | Those with warm indoor quarters sought out their warmest nooks , while others , like the eagles , did their best to find refuge in their open shelters looking out from the frozen draughty shadows on to a bitter world . |
| 13 | Caroline looked into the mirror and her grim reflection looked back at her . |
| 14 | She spends her whole life looking out the window watching who 's going up and down . |
| 15 | Her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body . |
| 16 | Travis abandoned his exploration of her satiny neck to look down into her smoky eyes . |
| 17 | In his second feature looking back on the regiment 's finest hours , Richard Barnett talks to the men who were proud to have served with the Glorious Glosters : |
| 18 | His perfect profile looked off down the rows of brightly coloured packets . |
| 19 | Damian turned his dark head to look down at her , and her gaze lifted to his mouth . |
| 20 | Then he turned , facing Hammond , his dark eyes looking up at him challengingly . |
| 21 | His playing days looked over , but then came a comeback and last year Lumsden was ready , fighting fit to play for Oxford at Twickenham . |
| 22 | His divided face looked down at her in disappointment . |
| 23 | At the rear of the shop his young assistant looked up from his work and grimaced at Lucy . |
| 24 | ‘ This thing 's heavier than I thought , ’ puffed Dad as his young son looked on . |