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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She looked carefully at the grey branches . |
| 10 | Her hands , like claws , clutched her cup and she looked sorrowfully at the lukewarm tea . |
| 11 | She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go . |
| 12 | She looked again at the small girl with bright eyes standing beside her desk so sensible and solemn . |
| 13 | She looked again at the tiny hut . |
| 14 | She looked steadily at the other two and was very firm . |
| 15 | She looked across at the half-hidden walking stick again . |
| 16 | Then she looked across at the silent lawyer . |
| 17 | Mesmerised by the heat rising from the hard earth and stones of the road , she looked numbly at the blue and white chipped plates . |
| 18 | She looked pointedly at the front curve of his new olive-green Shetland jersey . |
| 19 | She looked pointedly at the busy hands . |
| 20 | He looked carefully at the little black notes on their thin black lines . |
| 21 | He looked pensively at the topmost one again , and summoned his chief of spies . |
| 22 | He looked away at the dense thicket where the three hounds were working . |
| 23 | On his way he passed the church , where he looked closely at the old tower door . |
| 24 | He looked unseeingly at the beautiful face across the table , hearing the echo of his quarrel with Francesca , feeling his mind still chuntering on in justification of the anger that had led him to cut off all possibility of their holiday next week . |
| 25 | He looked sidelong at the black box , half expecting it to explode or emit strange musical tones . |
| 26 | He looked vaguely at the little stream running beside the road . |
| 27 | He looked across at the other two , who were laughing and taking a long time to get Maggie 's drink . |
| 28 | He looked across at the young T'ang of Africa , and smiled . |
| 29 | He looked across at the central desk . |
| 30 | Colonel Smith had been the thief , with Trent 's habit of loyalty as the accomplice ; the Latinos were merely the instruments , Trent thought as he looked across at the thick shape of Pedro Gomez seated on the windward side of the cockpit . |