Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pers pn] look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns . |
| 2 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
| 3 | The next morning , when I looked out to sea , there was no ship . |
| 4 | Stuffing the ‘ Hydracals ’ will be one of my most cherished memories when I look back on my spell as manager of Athletico Whaddon . |
| 5 | Rosie cringed and showed the whites of her eyes when she looked up at her master . |
| 6 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 7 | Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through . |
| 8 | Not like the old days when we looked up to you . |
| 9 | Nowadays , when we look back at old photographs and films of the 1950s rock and roll craze , and the Teddy Boys , it is easy to wonder what all the fuss was about . |
| 10 | We 're working at things which the players might not appreciate at the moment but they will in 10 years time when they look back on what they have achieved . |
| 11 | The poem , addressed in its final form to Charles Lamb , followed his friends in imagination as they walked first ‘ along the hill-top edge ’ , then descended to the waterfall in the ‘ roaring dell ’ at Holford , and climbed at last high into the Quantocks , from where they looked out upon ‘ the many-steepled tract magnificent ’ of the coastal plain . |
| 12 | On an afternoon in late February they climbed to the great Iron Age hill-fort at Dowsborough , from where they looked down on ‘ a magnificent scene , curiously spread out for even minute inspection ’ ; and on other occasions they watched from the hills as the effects of the weather unfolded over the landscape below . |
| 13 | Captain Freddie said he could hardly believe his eyes when he looked out of his bedroom window . |
| 14 | This idea grows in the poems leading up to ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , finding full expression in 1923 when he looks back to his seminar paper , speculating that ‘ primitive man ’ may have |
| 15 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 16 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |