Example sentences of "look [adv] [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 2 | But there was a figure at the window , looking silently out at the opaque sky . |
| 3 | He stood for a while , looking round about at the quiet dunes and the settling birds . |
| 4 | Quite so it 's about feeling you 're going to make a fool of yourself , I mean what 's the feeling when you come in and you sit down first thing in the morning you look all round at the other eleven people |
| 5 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 6 | She knew at once what he meant and looked nervously round at the others . |
| 7 | The owner 's wife looked nervously out at the throng from behind her lace curtains . |
| 8 | ‘ You walk to your London office in preference to using your car on your non-interviewing days ? ’ he enquired , and Fabia looked swiftly down at the carpet . |
| 9 | Dotty looked thoughtfully down at the tablecloth . |
| 10 | He looked thoughtfully down at the white box , Mo 's coffin . |
| 11 | I looked drowsily around at the empty green miles sleeping under the sunshine . |
| 12 | Panting , Ruth looked desperately round at the great host of Women . |
| 13 | Then he looked peacefully up at the white ceiling again . |
| 14 | She glanced up at him , and looked quickly back at the dishes as various possibilities chased through her mind . |
| 15 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 16 | Karen looked sullenly down at the crazy paving , where a small ant was wending its way homeward with part of a dead butterfly on its back . |
| 17 | Grégoire looked sullenly down at the floor . |
| 18 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 19 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 20 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 21 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 22 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 23 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 24 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 25 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 26 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 27 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 28 | Dalziel looked sharply round at the bar . |
| 29 | The train came into Belsize Park and she looked curiously out at the station . |
| 30 | The Doctor looked sadly down at the bodies . |