Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked down a tube as empty as Outer Space , I pushed away from my board and dove for the bottom . |
| 2 | ‘ All three of us looked down the embankment and it became apparent there was a body there , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , ’ Karl shook his head as he looked down the avenue . |
| 4 | The question presented itself at yesterday 's Foyle 's lunch in Mayfair , when the distinguished scientist Sir Rudolf Peierls took an early siesta during an interesting speech by Lord Zuckerman , whose new book we were celebrating , and who at that very moment looked down the top table and described Peierls , rightly , as ‘ one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists ever ’ . |
| 5 | Would you mind if I looked down the list ? |
| 6 | Henry looked down the table now and grinned at his mother as he said , ‘ Yes , Mama . ’ |
| 7 | She looked down the table to Captain Meredith facing her . |
| 8 | Annie looked down the table to where her son George sat next to his wife . |
| 9 | Standing on the brake-van verandah , he looked down the line towards the signal box . |
| 10 | He took off his pince-nez , perched them higher up his nose , looked down the table . |
| 11 | He went to his window , and looked down the five storeys into the courtyard . |
| 12 | I looked down the other scores and confirmed that Jack was in about twentieth place , so he would need a very special round today to force his way back among the leaders . |
| 13 | He looked down the table and held up his plate , as did the ‘ broth ’ . |
| 14 | Ellie looked down the table at her father , expecting an intervention . |
| 15 | The head of the family rested his knife and fork on their heels and looked down the table . |
| 16 | Hazel turned his head and looked down the course of the brook . |
| 17 | When , finally , the tremors stopped , she looked down the bed at his smiling shiny face . |
| 18 | Hope looked down the fell where Colonel and Mrs Moore were strolling with unskilful aimlessness , taking care never to look up towards the two figures on the rump of mountain . |
| 19 | Ruth looked down the menu and was scandalised . |
| 20 | She looked down the list . |
| 21 | Fowler took it , opened the breech and looked down the twin barrels . |
| 22 | Time passing never softened the impact of that moment when she looked down the table to where Twomey waited for Aunt Tossie to give her attention to the pudding he offered . |
| 23 | Riches : until she had given Luke the money she owed him , paid a month 's rent in advance , redeemed a few things from the pawnshop , bought extra coal for the cold weather , taken Liam to a doctor because something had to be done about his cough ; looked down the bleak distance of the weeks ahead with no work promised . |
| 24 | She looked down the long ride to where , at the distant foot of its slope , the lake shuddered in the wind . |
| 25 | He looked down the table at Allingham . |
| 26 | She had reached the edge of the park and looked down the slopes to the fair in the dell on the far side . |
| 27 | Benjamin leaned forward and looked down the table at him . |
| 28 | She fumbled a pair of glasses from the folds of her sari and looked down the register . |
| 29 | I looked along a line of patients and recognized a back still straight and a head still proudly held . |
| 30 | The back of this house looked over a lawn full of chestnuts and beech , through an avenue of espaliered pears next to a Beatrix Potter asparagus patch , down to the water meadows of the Avon . |