Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] looked [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Leaving my car outside the farm I looked warily into the front garden before venturing between the walls . |
| 6 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 7 | Each time I looked away from the road , the wheelbarrow fell over . |