Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 When Coffin returned from central London late that night , he looked in at the TAS office .
2 All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads .
3 Mr Smith , a man of about forty with large soft bags under his eyes , leant over his paper-strewn desk and looked down at the No-Nonsense pen he was fiddling with , Steven watched the pen .
4 I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard .
5 ‘ She looked over at the UK block as she ran past and the place just erupted , ’ Stoy Hayward 's Olympic hockey player Don Williams told ACCOUNTANCY .
6 Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth .
7 After the excitement died down , and I was being congratulated by my wee brother and the others , I looked up at the Edelmans ' window .
8 The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself .
9 When I looked back to the Mimosa there was no sign of him , but the door was open .
10 He looked back to the Yalta conference as the beginning of a betrayal of European interests by the Superpowers and was determined to assert a new ‘ European ’ role in world affairs , which would also reduce East-West tensions .
11 Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father .
12 Ace looked back at the TARDIS door and weighed the key thoughtfully .
13 There , as they looked out over the River Thames , he ordered a meal and demanded that she tell him her life story .
14 From the top of Flinter Gill I looked out to the Howgills and across to where cloud shadows were moving across Dentdale and over Rise Hill .
15 He looked out into the Darkfall .
16 Getting out of bed , Rachel flung open the curtains and looked out at the September morning .
17 A cup of coffee in his hand , he looked out at the New York skyline and started to laugh .
18 ‘ Fuck you , ’ the Maggot screamed at whoever fired at him and I looked out of the Beechcraft 's side window to see palm trees going past at over 150 miles an hour and above us .
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