Example sentences of "[art] [noun] and looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He jumped , across the gully and looked under the car . |
| 2 | In this experiment , only Group M is learning on Day 2 , whilst Group N is repeating similar but already learned behaviour to that of Group M. Immediately after the trial on Day 2 we took the birds and looked for the expression of one of the immediate early genes , c-jun . |
| 3 | She gripped the rail and looked down the street . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | One night , she got up and turned on the light and looked at the sweet , bland face of Jesus , the Light of the World , in the picture over the mantelpiece . |
| 6 | And this excitement , and the feeling of being involved in a half-guessed-at mystery , became her private obsession as she went about the house , visited the shops and looked after the children . |
| 7 | Juliet went to the doorway and looked along the ward , just as a doctor left one room and entered another . |
| 8 | Carson stepped out on to the terrace and looked over the rail again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Stok went across to the window and looked through the side of the curtain like they do in gangster films . |
| 11 | She went to the window and looked at the sky . |
| 12 | She relatched the window and looked for the deadlock key on the ring , but Carson said , ‘ I 'll see to that later . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Mike pushed the papers back across the desk and looked at the Old Man , who raised his eyebrows questioningly . |
| 15 | I went out naked on the landing and looked over the banisters . |
| 16 | He walked to the telescope and looked through the eye piece . |
| 17 | All I remember thinking of as I pushed the trolley and looked at the red face and eyebrows was , My friend , you are about to take the longest journey a man ever takes in this life . |
| 18 | He picked up the lamp and looked around the room . |
| 19 | She snapped shut the diary and looked at the next piece of paper . |
| 20 | After the lunch , they all sat on the verandah and looked at the grass and listened to the wood pigeons and warblers . |
| 21 | ‘ Tom lay down on the grass and looked into the clear , clear limestone water , with every pebble at the bottom bright and clean , while the little silver trout dashed about in fright at the sight of his black face ; and he dipped his hand in and found it so cool , cool , cool ; and he said , ‘ I will be a fish ; I will swim in the water ; I must be clean , I must be clean ’ . ’ |
| 22 | I lay down on the ground and looked through the windows , right into the King 's rooms . |
| 23 | If I pressed my eye flat to the ground and looked into the next garden , the big bushes there with thick tall stems and flat leaves seemed part of a mysterious tropical forest . |
| 24 | He walked to the chair and looked through the grubby net curtain . |
| 25 | Miss Conway , ’ she left the counter and looked into the room , saying , ‘ Yes ? ’ |
| 26 | So I sat down on a chair that stood by the counter and looked around the shop while waiting for Mary to emerge from behind the colourful painted screen where she was trying things on . |
| 27 | She shook her head to dispel the shadows and looked at the four children sitting listlessly on the couch . |
| 28 | She went indoors to her room , lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling until a nurse brought lunch . |
| 29 | Richard sat on the side of the bed and looked at the floor . |
| 30 | Laying my pack of cigarettes on the table , I lay back on the bed and looked at the ceiling . |