Example sentences of "[noun] and looked [adv] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lambert opened his eyes and looked bleakly at the map . |
| 2 | He held up his forefinger and looked questioningly at the District Chief . |
| 3 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 4 | He stopped his horse and looked across at the friar . |
| 5 | The monk licked his lips and looked sideways at the Bishop . |
| 6 | She lifted the hem of her nightie and looked determinedly at the scar on her thigh . |
| 7 | They stood on the banks and looked across at the blanket of fog coming from the river . |
| 8 | policeman and looked sideways at the Russian troops . |
| 9 | She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock . |
| 10 | When the coffee was done , he turned towards Oliver and looked closely at the boy . |
| 11 | I walked to the end of the pier and looked across at the island . |
| 12 | He put a large mug of steaming black coffee in front of Connon and looked enquiringly at the stuff which littered the table . |
| 13 | Now he sat up in bed and looked eagerly at the different handwritings . |
| 14 | DeVore took his eye from the lens of the electron-microscope and looked across at the geneticist , smiling , impressed by what he 'd seen . |
| 15 | At last she set down her cup and looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall . |
| 16 | She sat up , flicked on her torch and looked thoughtfully at the cabin window . |
| 17 | Maggie walked out on to the balcony and looked across at the mountains . |
| 18 | Well before noon , beside a small church whose roof sagged under clumps of grass and willow-herb , they came to the bridge over to Grandtully and looked across at the dense little settlement , lumpish houses made of undressed river boulders with brown smoke streaming through their heather thatch , hovels of branches littered through the trees , a few solid cottages with level roof-trees . |
| 19 | The Protestant reformers wanted to return as far as possible to the spirit of primitive Christianity and looked askance at the mystical tradition which seemed to have no warrant in Scripture . |
| 20 | The quiet of Hertfordshire did wonders for me , I walked in the grounds and looked across at the ‘ Immemorial elms ’ and listened for the ‘ Curfew ’ to toll the knell of parting day in the best Thomas Gray style . |
| 21 | Carrie leaned on the table and looked closely at the middle-aged man sitting facing her . |
| 22 | He set his glass down on the table and looked across at the bar . |
| 23 | They had emerged into the street and looked across at the overalled figure and the patch of wall on which he was working . |
| 24 | He abandoned this line of observation and looked carefully at the man inside the suit . |