Example sentences of "looked across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived at first not far from Magdalene College in a house which looked across the river Cam to Midsummer Common . |
| 2 | Karl looked across the street to where , among the cargo boats , the French and British Embassies hung out their flags , then looked again at the battleship . |
| 3 | She looked across the hall and visibly relaxed as she saw a man moving swiftly down the staircase . |
| 4 | Instead , he looked across the table . |
| 5 | She looked across the room again . |
| 6 | She looked across the passage at Clive . |
| 7 | Trent looked across the lake . |
| 8 | As we looked across the water to Corinth and listened to the haunting bouzouki music I saw why so many people return year after year to Poseidon . |
| 9 | On the way to Mrs Zamzam 's land , I looked across the same Lebanese border from the Israeli side and could actually make out in the far distance Mrs Zamzam 's camp at Rashidiyeh inside Lebanon . |
| 10 | Their snug cottage looked across the road to the ugliest house on the green , the Rectory , which stood at six o'clock , dead opposite the Youngs across Thrush Green , and was consequently a source of continuous irritation to Edward , the architect , who could see it from every south-facing window of his house . |
| 11 | She looked across the yard . |
| 12 | He looked across the field cum river bank in the general direction of civilisation , and with the aid of the moonlight was able to make out the familiar gables of the Blue Boar , a hundred yards away . |
| 13 | When they reached the log they stopped side by side and looked across the narrow water towards him . |
| 14 | She looked across the open grave at Sarah , her stepdaughter , and it saddened her even more that the gulf between them had never been bridged . |
| 15 | She looked across the dance floor and for a moment lost her balance . |
| 16 | Nick looked across the room to where a fat man in jeans stood by the bar and ticked the side of his forehead like a taxi driver acknowledging a tip . |
| 17 | He looked across the table at Meryl , who was giving a good impression of hanging on to every word Lee said . |
| 18 | He looked across the table at Jean-Paul , and Jean-Paul 's eyes slid away . |
| 19 | He looked across the street towards Hogan 's Gentleman 's Outfitters with huge unconcealed interest . |
| 20 | He looked across the room to where a famous actress held scornful court . |
| 21 | I … grew up , ’ she looked across the bay , ‘ at that house over there , ’ she added . |
| 22 | British pacifists , painfully aware of their own marginality , looked across the Atlantic to the still-neutral United States . |
| 23 | She looked across the road , saw Meredith , smiled and came striding athletically towards her . |
| 24 | In its drive stood a Japanese four-wheel-drive vehicle and as Meredith looked across the laburnum hedge at it , a woman of about her own age came out of the house , slamming the door crossly , got into the vehicle and reversed out into the road , driving off at speed . |
| 25 | He looked across the clearing to where Gurder and Topknot were arguing . |
| 26 | She looked across the terrace to the grim yew trees and thought , That 's how they all expect me to be — silent and still . |
| 27 | Holly looked across the table at the stubby , round-faced little fellow who breathed a cheerfulness that was alien here . |
| 28 | Erlich looked across the bare table at Rutherford . |
| 29 | It looked across the street at one of Woodborough 's dental practices , so that people passed the windows all day in various stages of apprehension and relief . |
| 30 | They all looked across the road as they heard their father call . |