Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 2 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 3 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
| 4 | He settled back and looked up at the ceiling as if he had forgotten she was there , and Maggie had the urge to creep away . |
| 5 | She put her head back and looked up at the ceiling . |
| 6 | And if things did n't go well : fifty four months , two hundred and thirty — Marcus lay on the bunk and looked up at the sag that was Pete . |
| 7 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 8 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 9 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 10 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
| 11 | When leaving the house one day , the bird suddenly cocked its head and looked up at the sky . |
| 12 | Soapy sat on a seat in Madison Square , New York , and looked up at the sky . |
| 13 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 14 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |
| 15 | Léonie sprawled lower on the muddy carpet and looked up at the beech trees spread against the sky . |
| 16 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 17 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 18 | He stopped and looked up at the tangle of gaunt branches above him . |
| 19 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |
| 20 | When they had gone , Peskova turned and looked up at the house again . |
| 21 | The servants woke , and two gentlemen , who were passing in the road below , stopped and looked up at the house . |
| 22 | On the first morning I stepped onto the chalet balcony and looked up at the mountain . |
| 23 | Scott walked outside and looked up at the rocket . |
| 24 | Dragging at the dog , she got him off the bed , and looked up at the visitor , whom she did not know . |
| 25 | He lay on his back and looked up at the leaf canopy as it stirred and turned , sifting the afternoon sunlight . |
| 26 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
| 27 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 28 | She patted his hand and looked out at the sunlight glittering on London 's rubbish . |
| 29 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 30 | I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds . |