Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] looked [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film .
2 In summer from the Ridgery you looked out over the tops of the trees .
3 That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region .
4 That evening we looked back on the day with our fellow guests whose interests — from birdwatching to archaeology , cave-exploring to gliding — reflected the enormous variety of activities catered for across the region .
5 For a moment he looked out across the water meadow , enjoying the night 's stillness , the beauty of the full moon overhead .
6 The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter .
7 Last night we looked back at the history of the MG , which appeared to have died a death when the factory at Abingdon closed in 1981 .
8 Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body .
9 In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish .
10 On the train I looked furtively at the lock on the carriage door and watched the railway embankment carefully as if assessing the effect of falling out onto it at speed .
11 The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night .
12 Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work .
13 From the rickety bridge I looked upwards to the waterfall , perhaps fifty feet above us ; at the spot where it vanished into ferns and flowers it was frothing like a diaphanous white ball gown .
14 From the train we looked down over the clutter of the rooftops , things broken , things abandoned , things stored and forgotten : broken water-jugs , wheel-less bicycles , rolls of rush matting .
15 The next morning they looked all around the wall and in the river , but they never found it .
16 Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights .
17 Her window had been wide all night and as she got out of bed she looked down on the dusty heads of trees where sparrows were fussing .
18 Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life .
19 During the journey he looked out of the window .
20 Leaving my car outside the farm I looked warily into the front garden before venturing between the walls .
21 While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car .
22 Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion .
23 But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge .
24 When he reached the branch-off track to the farm he looked up at the farmhouse .
25 The resemblance was there , not so much in looks but in the way she held herself , the way she looked out at the world with that little smile that dared anyone to try and touch her , he thought , remembering .
26 That 's the way it looked out in the halls as they each displayed a show car as bright as any we 've seen since Tokyo last year .
27 Each time I looked away from the road , the wheelbarrow fell over .
28 Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks .
29 Then as they emerged into a street she looked down at the child , and nodding backwards , she said , ‘ It saves ten minutes of pushing that way . ’
30 As the rocks flashed into furnace heat he looked up at the dragon that now occupied more than half the cell .
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