Example sentences of "[noun prp] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 2 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 3 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 4 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 5 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |
| 6 | Meredith looked back at the heaving throng on the shop floor . |
| 7 | Kathleen looked over at the square cardboard box she had just brought back from Dorothea . |
| 8 | Rusty looked out with a baleful eye from the front page . |
| 9 | Dr Neil looked down at the bent blue-black head , and some idea of the enormous concession she was making to him struck home . |
| 10 | Nicholson looked up at the grey stone building . |
| 11 | Reluctantly , Ruth looked up into the cold changeless eyes . |
| 12 | Crowther looked back to the previous and deeply influential report , also by the Central Advisory Council , on Early Leaving ( 1954 ) . |
| 13 | Ebert looked up at the big man defiantly , spitting the words back at him . |
| 14 | Simon looked up into the massive , spinning construction of wires and girders that soared above them into the night sky . |
| 15 | Simon looked back along the deserted promenade . |
| 16 | Mike Robinson looked down from the top bunk and saw Swain standing there . |
| 17 | Julia looked up at the cloudless sky and felt the last of the day 's sun on her face . |
| 18 | Elaine looked up at the black , velvety sky studded with tiny , twinkling stars . |
| 19 | Maurice looked around at the shabby and slightly absurd incongruities of the room . |
| 20 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 21 | Martin looked up into the dark sky where now he could see a faint pattern of grey , scudding clouds , then whispered , ‘ I do n't think it 'll last long with this wind , and there 's more snow in the air . |
| 22 | Rose looked up from a Naseby-dominated desk as Mr Multhrop speedily opened the door and almost pushed the sergeant in . |
| 23 | Daniel looked down at the big paddle wheel on the side of the ship . |
| 24 | Shelley looked up at the orange moon , slung low behind the ornate roofs of the seaside town . |
| 25 | Shelley looked up into the dark green fronded fingers of a palm tree , and went on , ‘ Oh , Rosie , Rosie , if only my bossy old crab Miguel were as dishy as that lovely singer . |
| 26 | As on that first night , Shelley looked down at the glowing rectangle of blue that was the floodlit pool . |
| 27 | Mr Malik looked round at the assembled school . |
| 28 | After the service , when everyone had filed outside , Willie looked around for the strange curly-haired boy that he had seen at the Post Office . |
| 29 | Tabitha looked up at the colossal walls of seamless pink stone rising hundreds of metres overhead , disappearing up into the dark . |
| 30 | Gambo looked up into the sturdy face of his ruler and his eyes suddenly cleared . |