Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv prt] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
2 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
3 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
4 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
5 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
6 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
7 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
8 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
9 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
10 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
11 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
12 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
13 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
14 | She stood by the window , and looked out at a grey cat on a grey wall in the grey road . |
15 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
16 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
17 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
18 | Elisabeth knelt on the window-seat and looked out at the ancient trees through the columns of the colonnade . |
19 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
20 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
21 | ‘ Hmm , ’ she grumbled , then sat back and looked out at the rush-hour traffic crawling into London on the M4 . |
22 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |
23 | He walked up to the pram and looked down at the young child . |
24 | Yanto jumped on to a large flat rock , still trying to keep his boots dry , and looked down at the huge mud covered object . |
25 | He went to the long table in the centre of the room and looked down at the detailed map spread out across its surface . |
26 | He held both her hands in his and looked down at the pale blur of her face . |
27 | Guido ripped free the dangling drunken door like a man putting out of its misery a fatally wounded animal , and looked down at the broken pieces in his hand . |
28 | I lay on my bed with a computer magazine and , from time to time , went to the window and looked down at the darkened street . |
29 | When she got to the large graph that shows the state of the church-roof appeal , she stopped and looked down at the waiting crowds as if she was a victorious politician looking down on her compliant voters . |
30 | He turned and looked back at the half-covered clinic , at the low exposed walls of the animal house . |