Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , I looked again at an old favourite , Arthur Eddington 's The Nature of the Physical World ( Cambridge The detailed insights provided by Mehra and Rechenburg put this in a fresh perspective ( and Eddington still stands up , half a century later , as a superb writer who knew how to present his material ) . |
| 2 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 3 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 4 | I looked again at the little cat . |
| 5 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 6 | I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road . |
| 7 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 8 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 9 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 10 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 11 | As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons . |
| 12 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 14 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 15 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 16 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 17 | I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room . |
| 18 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |
| 19 | I looked back at the first . |
| 20 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 21 | Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes . |
| 22 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |
| 23 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 24 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
| 25 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 26 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 27 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 28 | But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings . |
| 29 | She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows . |
| 30 | She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for . |