Example sentences of "[noun pl] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | On either side of him the warders looked down onto the other landings , watching for any signs of unrest amongst those below . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Neighbours looked up at the dark windows at night and wondered what could be hidden there , under dust sheets . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Thereafter I looked out of all the windows of the snug hostelry , and not finding a satisfactory view , for it now rained in earnest , and it was vain to hope to be able to sketch out of doors , I noticed a new house a short distance from the inn ( it was being prepared for a doctor ) ; was entrusted with the keys , and from one of the front windows looked out on the rainy scene depicted in the sketch of ‘ Garrynahine , Isle of Lewis . ’ |
| 8 | Fathers looked up at the uniform ceiling of grey cloud and decided to put on tweed caps instead of Panamas . |