Example sentences of "looked [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 2 | Then he looked suspiciously around the car . |
| 3 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 4 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 5 | The sudden sound brought down the children and Hugh , who looked nervously at the Borzoi . |
| 6 | Mr Crumwallis jumped , and looked nervously at the instrument . |
| 7 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |
| 8 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 9 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 10 | Five London dealers plus Harrods , which plans a display next week , carried off nearly half the lots while Vietnam government officials , the vendors , looked on from the balcony . |
| 11 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 12 | While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne . |
| 13 | He sat up gingerly and looked slowly around the cell . |
| 14 | She looked slowly around the room . |
| 15 | Delaney looked bitterly at the shambles . |
| 16 | The Doctor looked intensely at the poet . |
| 17 | He shrugged his shoulders and looked dumbly at the grain on the wooden table . |
| 18 | ‘ The Fuhrer loves art because he is himself an artist , ’ Goebbels announced in a contemporary newsreel , at which , no doubt , all genuine artists looked uneasily towards the border . |
| 19 | Masklin looked gloomily at the rain . |
| 20 | Smiling to himself , he looked idly across the road and saw Francesca , who should not have been back till Thursday . |
| 21 | Ajayi sat back , putting her gloves back on , She looked doubtfully at the man on the far side of the table . |
| 22 | She switched on the bedside lamp and looked dazedly at the clock . |
| 23 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 24 | She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window . |
| 25 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 26 | Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection . |
| 27 | He approached , and looked in at the boy . |
| 28 | He looked in on the President . |
| 29 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 30 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |