Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [adv] [prep] 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 now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron . |
| 7 | Leaving my car outside the farm I looked warily into the front garden before venturing between the walls . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She did care about American democracy , that was one of her great ideals , she looked forward to the ultimate conversion of Europe . |
| 11 | On the shop shelves , she looked remarkably like the established Barbie . |
| 12 | She looked carefully at the grey branches . |
| 13 | Her hands , like claws , clutched her cup and she looked sorrowfully at the lukewarm tea . |
| 14 | She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go . |
| 15 | She looked again at the small girl with bright eyes standing beside her desk so sensible and solemn . |
| 16 | She looked again at the tiny hut . |
| 17 | She looked steadily at the other two and was very firm . |
| 18 | She looked across at the half-hidden walking stick again . |
| 19 | Then she looked across at the silent lawyer . |
| 20 | Mesmerised by the heat rising from the hard earth and stones of the road , she looked numbly at the blue and white chipped plates . |
| 21 | She looked pointedly at the front curve of his new olive-green Shetland jersey . |
| 22 | She looked pointedly at the busy hands . |
| 23 | They looked southward across the dismal waste . |
| 24 | The air was all fresh on my face , I could be a loon myself , fling my arms about , shout across the mud-flats ( they looked just like the muddy backside of yesterday 's elephants ) and listen to my shout dissolving in the air before it reached the other side . |
| 25 | Neither he nor Loren liked the house , much ; it had been built not too long after the war , and with its small windows and pebbledash it had none of the atmosphere of the ‘ place in the country ’ that they 'd been hoping for-if anything , it looked more like the married quarters for lower RAF ranks to be found around old and run-down airfields . |
| 26 | He looked forward to the promised visit of young van Rappard . |
| 27 | He looked slowly around the other faces in the room . |
| 28 | He looked carefully at the little black notes on their thin black lines . |
| 29 | He looked pensively at the topmost one again , and summoned his chief of spies . |
| 30 | He looked away at the dense thicket where the three hounds were working . |