Example sentences of "looked [adv] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The Dominican looked suspiciously at the white , haggard face of Cranston , the bleary red eyes , and the way he was swaying rather dangerously on the top step .
2 She looked nervously at the western sky , tumultuous with dark clouds that had so hastened the dusk that the first lamps were already being lit in the city 's archways and windows .
3 The governor looked keenly at the American for a moment , but encountered only the senators disarming smile and turned away again .
4 Dong looked doubtfully at the inadequate grave .
5 Jack looked doubtfully at the waxen face of his stepfather .
6 I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron .
7 Ingram looked doubtfully at the long table , rocking up and down like a lugger in a gale .
8 He looked doubtfully at the rain-filled skies .
9 Mr Stokill looked approvingly at the finished job .
10 The latter looked admiringly at the other two who have been preserved long past their life expectancy .
11 He looked pointedly at the four-poster bed with its rumpled coverlet , then back at Sarella .
12 She looked pointedly at the front curve of his new olive-green Shetland jersey .
13 She looked pointedly at the busy hands .
14 He looked pointedly at the solitary and tarnished crown on Woolley 's shoulder .
15 Holly stood beside a poorly dug hole and he looked down at a T-shaped junction of pipes and saw that the screw-fastened aperture that gave access to the pipe join and its subsidiary were swathed in doth and knotted around in plastic sheeting .
16 Dazed , I looked down at a little girl with wide , solemn eyes .
17 Ellen caught my eye , looked down at the ridiculous leaflet , and suddenly we both began to laugh helplessly .
18 He looked down at the foul mess before him .
19 She looked down at the front fastenings , then her fingers shook as they fumbled to button the jacket correctly .
20 She nodded , as she looked down at the tiny poodle .
21 Sarah looked down at the sleeping infant and made some suitable comment , but her mind was occupied with Elizabeth 's obvious ill-health .
22 He looked down at the shining pate of the man behind the desk who was leafing through a file .
23 I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub .
24 He walked up to the pram and looked down at the young child .
25 Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name .
26 Shamlou looked down at the cowering woman in the hearth , the petrol-sodden gown clinging to her body .
27 She looked down at the broad flags of the terrace they were crossing .
28 He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap .
29 For several minutes Morse looked down at the turbid , turgid river ; and his thoughts were as restless as the waters below him .
30 She looked down at the undersized and ill-clothed child , and was warmed by an ache of loving despair .
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