Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " 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 | Outside , she stood and looked about her at the maze of buildings . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Carrie looked about her at the crackling fire and a fair semblance of tidiness in the kitchen . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 18 | They looked for it at the hospital and at the police station . |
| 19 | They looked for it inside the white car . |
| 20 | ‘ I looked for you after the raft procession , but you were nowhere to be seen . ’ |
| 21 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 22 | Three who suffered particularly at the time were Richard and Phoebe Winch who lived just below the Centre and in whose house I often took my evening glass of ‘ allowed ’ claret , and Ann Willson who looked after me for the Saturday and Sunday . |
| 23 | My father looked after me on the long journey home , and sat with me for every minute . |
| 24 | He looked past her beyond the stairs into a kitchen . |
| 25 | He swallowed and , keeping his head low , looked past her at the girls . |
| 26 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 27 | He seemed a little tense , and looked past me at the bedroom door ; and I was reminded of that first day . |
| 28 | She looked behind her at the door of the courtroom . |
| 29 | It looked like her from the back . |
| 30 | Blanche looked round her at the wallpapered walls and the flounced pink curtains and said , ‘ How very nice . |