Example sentences of "[noun] looked down [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 2 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 3 | Crossley looked down at the corpse , the breeze bringing the stench of blood and excrement to his nostrils . |
| 4 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 5 | Little Amaru looked down at the street and kicked a can with his red gumboots . |
| 6 | A row of yellow , baleful eyes looked down from the darkness among the rafters . |
| 7 | Travis looked down at the jade . |
| 8 | Ruth looked down at the pool , remembering its silken coolness ; then a pang of horror came . |
| 9 | Rincewind looked down at the iconograph , still hanging around his neck . |
| 10 | Chen looked down at the hand that had grasped his own so firmly . |
| 11 | Lord Hulton looked down at the animal which had just stopped breathing . |
| 12 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 13 | Kim looked down at the carpet . |
| 14 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 15 | DeVore looked down at the desk . |
| 16 | DeVore looked down at the hand that held his own . |
| 17 | Rilla looked down at the floor and said nothing . |
| 18 | Paddy looked down for a moment at Joey , who beamed up at him , ‘ We gon na play checkers , Paddy ? ’ he called out suddenly and laughed . |
| 19 | Endill looked down at the sea . |
| 20 | A large photograph of Helen looked down on the mourners . |
| 21 | Andra looked down at the concoction in the dusty glass in front of him . |
| 22 | Hazel looked down at the road in astonishment . |
| 23 | Robert looked down at the manuscript . |
| 24 | Emmie looked down at the top of his head ; his hair was black and silky and he wore it rather long , like an artist . |
| 25 | Meg looked down through the trees . |
| 26 | ‘ Er — ’ Jinny looked down at the dial . |
| 27 | Jinny looked down at the cutting . |
| 28 | Jessamyn looked down at the smoking remains . |
| 29 | Clinging close in the shelter of the stone , Harry looked down into a face suddenly vivid in the quickening light . |
| 30 | Sarella looked down into the courtyard where Peter was busily taking off his skis . |