Example sentences of "[noun] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
2 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
3 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
4 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
5 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
6 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
7 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
8 | The picture in her mind changed , and the glaring , venomous eyes looked out of the wasted features … to be succeeded at once by the smug face of another old woman . |
9 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
10 | Rusty looked out with a baleful eye from the front page . |
11 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
12 | The boy looked around like a trapped animal . |
13 | Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building . |
14 | Reluctantly , Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes . |
15 | Crowther looked back to the previous and deeply influential report , also by the Central Advisory Council , on Early Leaving ( 1954 ) . |
16 | The room was depressing : the single window looked out on the narrow street ; there were net curtains as well as heavy , red velvet drapes drawn half-way across . |
17 | On either side of him the warders looked down onto the other landings , watching for any signs of unrest amongst those below . |
18 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
19 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
20 | Simon looked back along the deserted promenade . |
21 | The Collector looked down at the gaunt , upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs . |
22 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
23 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
24 | Elaine looked up at the black , velvety sky studded with tiny , twinkling stars . |
25 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
26 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
27 | Rain looked down into the steep cleft of another valley . |
28 | Martin looked up into the dark sky where now he could see a faint pattern of grey , scudding clouds , then whispered , ‘ I do n't think it 'll last long with this wind , and there 's more snow in the air . |
29 | Since the Greeks looked back on the Mycenaean past as a ‘ Golden Age ’ of gods and heroes , they tended to regard history as a decline from this ideal state and not as an ultimate order of reality . |
30 | The Duke looked back at the Prussian message . |