Example sentences of "[noun sg] looked [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The superintendent looked up at the SOCO , posing the question like a doctor checking the symptoms of a sickly patient . |
| 2 | The boy looked up at the plane , then threw himself to the ground . |
| 3 | The bachelor looked angrily at the girl , and then at the aunt . |
| 4 | The Army was more ambivalent : while welcoming the end of National Service and the return to ‘ real soldiering ’ with a regular army , the Army Council looked askance at the loss of 51 regiments , 17 of which were infantry battalions with battle honours stretching back over the centuries . |
| 5 | The old woman looked round at the child and smiled , suddenly touched . |
| 6 | Shaking the water from her matted hair and sodden white lab coat while drawing a series of relieved gulps of air , the woman looked up at the Marines with a weak smile . |
| 7 | Ace looked back at the TARDIS door and weighed the key thoughtfully . |
| 8 | The Archbishop looked down at the floor and shook his head . |
| 9 | The wind was strengthening in their faces , and more than one man looked up at the sky in puzzlement . |
| 10 | The beefy man looked up at the sound . |
| 11 | Folly looked back at the list , but the names , in most cases just initial and surname , told her nothing . |
| 12 | The Sergeant looked back at the troopers . |
| 13 | The Holland Report looked explicitly at the issue of employers ' dissatisfaction with young workers and presented its information in such a way as to support the idea of education 's failure in this area . |
| 14 | The report looked specifically at the cluster of cases around Dounreay and concluded that they were most likely to have been caused by oil workers rather than emissions from the nuclear plant . |
| 15 | The Doctor looked intensely at the poet . |
| 16 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 17 | Dad looked hard at the man , already the worse of drink , unsteady and menacing . |
| 18 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |
| 19 | The Commando who had put the bomb into the mortar looked across at the Trog , shook his head and said slowly , ‘ It 's ‘ species ' ’ you silly bastard . |
| 20 | Fiver looked down at the water and twitched his ears . |
| 21 | The TV presenter looked across at the sergeant , as though registering his presence for the first time . |
| 22 | The mute looked warily at the Gascon and nodded his head . |