Example sentences of "he looked into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He looked into the farmer 's smiling red face .
2 He looked into the map room , but no one was there .
3 He looked into the turbulence , the red and the black at the heart of the Jackson Pollock painting .
4 He looked into the wardrobes and through the drawers in the dressing-table and tallboy .
5 He looked into the cradle the painters were using to paint the outside of the balustrade from , and saw an old radio so spotted with paint it could have been an art exhibit .
6 On his right , Doyle 's pale blue eyes were steady under the black hair , his face doubly familiar and hated because Tug saw something very like it every time he looked into the mirror .
7 He looked into the mirror to see a pair of brown eyes looking at him levelly , appreciative of and amused by his scrutiny .
8 He looked into the mirror and screamed .
9 Oh ’ — he looked into the basket — ‘ I 'm not going for a week ; I just wanted a sandwich or two .
10 Holly held the mug between his two hands , and his palms were warmed , and he looked into the murk of the liquid .
11 He looked into the calm of the face , into the clear eyes .
12 He looked into the fire .
13 And something else ; something he saw as the curtain tore away and he looked into the depths of the unbelievable face above him , fractionally dulled his reflexes .
14 He looked into the woman 's face .
15 He looked into the living-room .
16 He looked into the Doctor 's eyes , and saw incomprehension , sympathy — and disdain .
17 He looked into the box and then immediately closed and left it .
18 Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder .
19 He believed he was as beautiful as ever when he looked into the glass , but perhaps the AIDS scare had stopped them picking up older men in bars .
20 If he looked into the device , he may have left something of himself . ’
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