Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] looked [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | Staggering to her feet she looked back towards the wounded man ; he had slumped to the floor , and was trying to push himself back to a kneeling position . |
| 3 | In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees . |
| 4 | From the top of Flinter Gill I looked out to the Howgills and across to where cloud shadows were moving across Dentdale and over Rise Hill . |
| 5 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 6 | That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region . |
| 7 | For a moment he looked out across the water meadow , enjoying the night 's stillness , the beauty of the full moon overhead . |
| 8 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
| 9 | Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 . |
| 10 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |
| 11 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 12 | On the train I looked furtively at the lock on the carriage door and watched the railway embankment carefully as if assessing the effect of falling out onto it at speed . |
| 13 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 14 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 15 | From the rickety bridge I looked upwards to the waterfall , perhaps fifty feet above us ; at the spot where it vanished into ferns and flowers it was frothing like a diaphanous white ball gown . |
| 16 | Around nine o'clock on what was now her third night at the Lodge she looked up from the page and saw a face at the dark window staring in at her through the rain . |
| 17 | From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting . |
| 18 | The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it . |
| 19 | Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights . |
| 20 | Drawing the curtain across the windows she looked out on the gloomy , almost deserted street . |
| 21 | Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing . |
| 22 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 23 | During the journey he looked out of the window . |
| 24 | Leaving my car outside the farm I looked warily into the front garden before venturing between the walls . |
| 25 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 26 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 27 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 28 | When he reached the branch-off track to the farm he looked up at the farmhouse . |
| 29 | The resemblance was there , not so much in looks but in the way she held herself , the way she looked out at the world with that little smile that dared anyone to try and touch her , he thought , remembering . |
| 30 | That 's the way it looked out in the halls as they each displayed a show car as bright as any we 've seen since Tokyo last year . |