Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [adv] at the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts .
2 I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man .
3 I looked again at the little cat .
4 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 .
5 I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road .
6 I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old .
7 Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
8 I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
13 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 .
14 I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti .
15 I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room .
16 I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron .
17 I looked back at the first .
18 Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
19 I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub .
20 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 .
21 I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile .
22 I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly .
23 I looked down at the glistening pavements .
24 I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan .
29 As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before .
30 The desperate woman 's eyes sparkled and she looked up at the crafty totter with new interest .
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