Example sentences of "[noun] looked [adv prt] at [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
| 5 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 6 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 7 | Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building . |
| 8 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 9 | The Collector looked down at the gaunt , upturned faces gathered at the foot of the stairs . |
| 10 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 11 | Elaine looked up at the black , velvety sky studded with tiny , twinkling stars . |
| 12 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 13 | The Duke looked back at the Prussian message . |
| 14 | Daniel looked down at the big paddle wheel on the side of the ship . |
| 15 | Shelley looked up at the orange moon , slung low behind the ornate roofs of the seaside town . |
| 16 | As on that first night , Shelley looked down at the glowing rectangle of blue that was the floodlit pool . |
| 17 | Mr Malik looked round at the assembled school . |
| 18 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 19 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 20 | At midnight the solitary guard leaning in the shadows looked up at the conjoining planets and wondered idly what change in his fortunes they might herald . |
| 21 | Billy looked around at the considerable number of pictures on the walls portraying various old sailing ships . |
| 22 | Ho looked up at the dawn-streaked sky . |
| 23 | Sarah looked down at the sleeping infant and made some suitable comment , but her mind was occupied with Elizabeth 's obvious ill-health . |
| 24 | Sophie looked down at the unconscious West Highland terrier and saw that his breathing was rapid and shallow . |
| 25 | Pamela looked up at the irritable tone , so out of place in these idyllic surroundings . |
| 26 | For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him . |
| 27 | Shamlou looked down at the cowering woman in the hearth , the petrol-sodden gown clinging to her body . |
| 28 | Lewis looked down at the uncarpeted floor-boards and put his note-book away . |
| 29 | Riley looked up at the tall Scotsman and nudged Ben in the ribs . |
| 30 | Behind the screen Wycliffe looked down at the dead man : middle or late forties , probably above average height , bony , but with a tendency to corpulence sedentary : the disease of modern man . |