Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry looked about him at the comfortable disorder of the place , which was not at all like the spick and span home Ann had made for him . |
| 2 | He all but bumped into the couple , but , just in time , he arrested his progress , drew back , seemed , for an instant , to seek for oxygen as if he had emerged from some physical deep of ocean , looked about him at the mundane world he had re-entered and then , with rapid dignity , collected himself . |
| 3 | All this , ’ he looked about him at the books and paintings and machines , ‘ it speaks of a love of knowledge . ’ |
| 4 | Li Shai Tung let the remote drift slowly towards the starship and sat back , one hand smoothing through his long beard while he looked about him at the faces of his fellow T'ang . |
| 5 | He looked about him at the decoration of the study . |
| 6 | Karr looked about him at the carnage , then turned , facing Ebert . |
| 7 | Hammond looked about him at the bare white walls , then nodded . |
| 8 | Chen took a deep breath then looked about him at the banks of monitors that filled every wall of the huge , hexagonal room , impressed despite himself . |
| 9 | Old Den turned the horse and looked about him in the yard . |
| 10 | Moran 's high-strung nervousness , which was usually concealed by slow , deliberate movements , was all on show as he looked about him like an animal in unknown territory and tore open the envelope . |
| 11 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 12 | She looked about her at the freshness of the morning , then laughed and , pulling her hair out of the tight bun she had secured it in to ride , shook her head . |
| 13 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 14 | As she followed Penry as quickly as she could she looked about her at the island with interest , curious to see what had lain behind a veil of sea mist and rain since her dramatic arrival . |
| 15 | She flashed the note around , proudly though covertly , and looked for him at the bus stop , but she could not look for him without some misgiving . |
| 16 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 17 | Adam wondered if Abigail sometimes woke up and looked for him in the dark , in the empty room , and fretted for a while before she began to cry . |
| 18 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 19 | By this time , he believed there were no suitable ‘ mature ’ actresses left , so he looked for someone with the necessary vocal ability . |
| 20 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 21 | ( adv ) He looked up/the word ( looked for it in a dictionary ) . |
| 22 | They looked for it inside the white car . |
| 23 | ‘ A lot of people looked for you for a long time . |
| 24 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , indeed so , erm our domestic life is extraordinarily complicated but when , after my maternity leave expired and when I 'd finished having time off and breast feeding the baby , he in fact looked after her for a term in Cambridge and I came back to Sussex and taught during the week and went back to my daughter and husband at weekends , and now he 's actually taking leave in his turn , if you like , so that he can be the back-up here while I teach and do my work this year . |
| 26 | He embarked on his career of gillie in 1849 as Prince Albert 's gillie , and was mentioned in the queen 's journal on 11 September 1849 as ‘ young J. Brown ’ who looked after her on an outing . |
| 27 | I looked after her as a baby , you know . |
| 28 | And so you looked after her as a housekeeper did you ? |
| 29 | Later he became less abusive and rather pathetically said that he kept himself to himself , that the girl was not roaming the streets getting into trouble like the girls who went to school , that company now would be cruel and shameful to an old man who had provided her with a home , protected her and looked after her in every way . |
| 30 | The probation found a little stray dog called Benjy for me and I looked after him for a little while , but my money kept on going down and down and down . |