Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] looked [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson stepped out on to the terrace and looked over the rail again . |
| 2 | Juliet went to the doorway and looked along the ward , just as a doctor left one room and entered another . |
| 3 | He followed her , but stopped in the living room doorway and looked at the room . |
| 4 | Then she got the photographs out of her handbag and looked at the view of the swimming-pool . |
| 5 | Anyway , I just tapped my boot against the bottom of the boat and looked over the river , busy with huge dung barges emptying their putrid waste in midstream . |
| 6 | She ran one finger across the keys of his typewriter and looked across the room to the photo of him which hung on the wall , smiling . |
| 7 | I found a light and looked round the room . |
| 8 | Amanda Fergusson now rested her book on her lap and looked at the ceiling in alarm . |
| 9 | She went to the window and looked at the sky . |
| 10 | She relatched the window and looked for the deadlock key on the ring , but Carson said , ‘ I 'll see to that later . |
| 11 | When I opened an upstairs window and looked into the ravine ( this was in winter , so it was easy to see the tracks ) , Zverev 's works , and those of some other artists , were lying out in the snow . |
| 12 | Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films . |
| 13 | She strode over to her single window and looked towards the Cherwell , over the garden . |
| 14 | The house was decorated almost entirely in weedy shades of green and looked to the children like a fish tank that needed cleaning out . |
| 15 | She put them under her raincoat in the basket and looked at the receipt the chemist had handed her from the till ; there was no evidence that she had paid for these items . |
| 16 | Claudia sat behind her desk and looked at the date to which Myra had just drawn her attention . |
| 17 | He picked up the glass case and looked at the bird reflectively . |
| 18 | He jumped , across the gully and looked under the car . |
| 19 | I should have realised that from the fact that Micky said ‘ Oh Lord ’ — an expression , incidentally , that was n't in the script of the play and that he had never used in his life — before he turned round from the Hooded Owl and looked into the wings . |
| 20 | She gripped the rail and looked down the street . |
| 21 | Anna heard a noise and looked at the door . |
| 22 | In Carlyle Mansions itself , Hayward 's own rooms were at the front of the building and looked over the river and the gardens while Eliot satisfied himself with a study and bedroom down a dark passage at the back of the building . |
| 23 | Refreshed , I went up on deck and looked at the waves . |
| 24 | They stopped beside Mrs McAllister 's resting-place and looked at the ground in silence . |
| 25 | Drawing a deep breath to hide a flicker of nervousness , he stood at the great carved oak lectern and looked along the stalls at the nuns who sat before him there , so composed in their wimples of white and the dark garb of their Order . |
| 26 | He sat back in his pew and looked around the church which the indefatigable ladies of the WI had transformed with flowers and holly sprays . |
| 27 | I went out naked on the landing and looked over the banisters . |
| 28 | He realised the impending danger and looked up the road where he saw a Morris Minor coming down the hill . |
| 29 | A woman abandoned by her husband found her wage of new and crucial importance and looked to the union for support . |
| 30 | When the policeman told him what was wanted he removed his hat , wiped his brow and looked at the sky — it was mid-afternoon , and there would be only three hours of light remaining . |