Example sentences of "[noun prp] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 2 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 3 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 4 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |
| 5 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 6 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 7 | Crossley looked down at the corpse , the breeze bringing the stench of blood and excrement to his nostrils . |
| 8 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 9 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 10 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 11 | Bernice looked around at the city . |
| 12 | When Paula was shown into her office Arlene looked up from a sheaf of photographs which were spread on her desk with just a hint of impatience . |
| 13 | Piper O'Rourke looked up from the shift supervisor 's desk as a dishevelled and embarrassed Alex Bannen walked into the Belial Base Operations Room , followed by his son . |
| 14 | Little Amaru looked down at the street and kicked a can with his red gumboots . |
| 15 | Richard looked out at the sun and the trees with a quickening heart . |
| 16 | Molly looked round at the party . |
| 17 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 18 | The Sheikha looked up to the sun . |
| 19 | Travis looked down at the jade . |
| 20 | Edward looked up from the picture and studied mc for a long moment . |
| 21 | Edward looked out of the window , where rooks beat across a turbulent sky . |
| 22 | Dazed , Ruth looked up from the sink . |
| 23 | Ruth looked round for a clock , but there was no clock in the room . |
| 24 | Ruth looked down at the pool , remembering its silken coolness ; then a pang of horror came . |
| 25 | Reynolds looked out of the window across the campus . |
| 26 | Lucenzo looked up from the coffee machine warily . |
| 27 | Rincewind looked up at a number of impassive , upside down faces . |
| 28 | Rincewind looked down at the iconograph , still hanging around his neck . |
| 29 | Sir Gerard looked up at the sky . |
| 30 | Zen looked round at the floor of unfinished concrete littered with cement bags , lengths of wire , nails and lumps of wood , a lone glove . |