Example sentences of "[pers pn] looks [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 2 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 3 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 4 | He looks up at the class . |
| 5 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 6 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 7 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 8 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |