Example sentences of "looked [prep] him [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 | 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 . |
| 12 | She looked for him in the oven , the fridge , the wicker basket that held wastepaper beside her desk . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | You looked for him in the Green Room , but found only his jacket . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I looked after him for a few days before he died . ’ |
| 17 | She had been his housekeeper since he had first moved into the rectory with Adelaide , and she looked after him with a devotion bordering on obsession . |
| 18 | Curtis looked after him with an understanding grin ; the two men had a lot in common . |
| 19 | Doyle looked after him in a kind of angry bewilderment . |
| 20 | Basha looked after him in the small village . |
| 21 | Her pulses racing , she looked past him to the dizzy drop through the hole in the cliff , to the sea below . |
| 22 | Doyle looked from him to the Woman and back again and his face twisted into an expression of complete scorn . |
| 23 | Michael looked from him to the offending cigarette and back again , then reluctantly stubbed it out . |
| 24 | Caroline looked from him to the wall . |
| 25 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Criminals far more vicious than Nicholas Dodman looked upon him as an easy target to provide an outlet for their criminal activities , ’ he said . |
| 27 | He had the last word , and everyone looked to him as the brains behind Huddersfield 's phenomenal success . |
| 28 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 29 | She looked to him for a lead and he gave it to her . |
| 30 | She looked beyond him into the darkness afraid that at any moment Craig would return . |