Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts .
2 I looked again at the little cat .
3 As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud .
4 I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man .
5 Then I looked again at the passenger opposite me .
6 I looked again at the passenger on my left .
7 Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights .
8 I looked helplessly at the doctor .
9 I looked sadly at the sea , but stayed in my box , and after a while I fell asleep .
10 Then I looked closer at the clock .
11 As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons .
12 On the train I looked furtively at the lock on the carriage door and watched the railway embankment carefully as if assessing the effect of falling out onto it at speed .
13 But none of this disturbed my mind or my body as I looked across at the girl in the coffee bar .
14 I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room .
15 I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron .
16 I looked hard at the photograph .
17 But if you looked carefully at the left-hand side , where there was a glass-enclosed porch , you might have noticed a few little birds flying around , the odd flash and flitter of coloured wings .
18 She looked mutinously at the scenery and listened to the clunking noises of the car as it trundled along , allowing minimal ventilation through the tiny windows that only slid across to open halfway .
19 She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows .
20 She looked carefully at the grey branches .
21 She looked carefully at the picture , studying the rings on the index fingers of the two shadowy figures .
22 Everything she had thought had been a lie and she looked carefully at the things she now possessed with new eyes .
23 But , since she was his guest and would have to eat something , she looked hopelessly at the menu again , and smilingly suggested , ‘ Perhaps you would n't mind ordering for me . ’
24 Her hands , like claws , clutched her cup and she looked sorrowfully at the lukewarm tea .
25 As she looked again at the faces of her family she was ready to burst into tears and almost did so but Erika , moving lightly into the kitchen , said : ‘ Fräulein Silber thinks that I should stay with her next week . ’
26 She looked again at the tiny hut .
27 She looked again at the bottle , standing like a soldier on the wooden bench .
28 She looked again at the small girl with bright eyes standing beside her desk so sensible and solemn .
29 She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go .
30 She looked again at the picture : really , Hilda was quite a pretty woman in her way , if your tastes inclined you to that sort of good looks .
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