Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] looked [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sliding her arm from beneath him , Beth got out of bed and , wrapping her robe about her shivering form , went first to the window , where she looked out at the moonlit night . |
| 2 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 3 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 4 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 5 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 6 | It was quite funny when you looked round at the end , you know , and everyone was just getting up |
| 7 | But when she looked up at the sky she discovered that the star had gone . |
| 8 | When she looked back at the road , the red saloon was coming towards her . |
| 9 | When she looked back at the window there was the face again ; but it was attempting now to smile . |
| 10 | Now , as the throbbing drone of the aircraft 's engines broke through her dark memories , and she wearily attempted to make herself more comfortable in her seat , Laura almost groaned aloud when she looked back at the total innocence and naïveté of her much younger self . |
| 11 | She went over to it , her mouth dry , her pulses racing , and when she looked down at the cherubic child with bright golden hair she had to grip the arms for support . |
| 12 | Grim and forbidding were the two well-used words that came to mind as she looked up at the building for the first time ; but there were no words that could easily describe the helpless terror that she felt as the side-gate opened before them and the ambulance had driven through . |
| 13 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 14 | She nodded , as she looked down at the tiny poodle . |
| 15 | As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room . |
| 16 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 17 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 18 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 19 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 20 | As he looked down at the body he used to love , he thanked God for letting him arrive in time . |
| 21 | ‘ They tell me betting-shops are littered with torn-up betting-slips , ’ said Morse , as he looked down at the two pink slips that Ashenden had handed to him . |