Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control . |
| 2 | The doctor looked down on to the younger children 's heads and his teeth clamped down even harder on his cigar . |
| 3 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 4 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 5 | Passengers went to the open doors and looked up and down the platform , trying to make out why they were stuck there , but no one looked up on to the roof of the car . |
| 6 | Cardiff looked back over to the reception windows at Frye 's silhouette . |
| 7 | The parks and main avenue were awash with trees in full blossom , and when she looked back up towards the farm she could see patches of cloudy pink where the apple trees were in bloom . |
| 8 | At the surface of the milky-looking gas he paused , and looked back up at the three masked faces , conscious all the while of the increasing rhythm of his breathing . |
| 9 | Cowley looked back up at the rising heights of St Paul 's . |
| 10 | Spatz looked aside , then looked back up at the Marshal , choosing his words carefully . |
| 11 | Lever looked back up at the screen , watching the young T'ang step down into the darkness . |
| 12 | Sighing , Cowley looked back down at the operation . |
| 13 | The T'ang looked back down at the folder and at the summary Shepherd had appended to the front of his report . |
| 14 | One of them , a tall Hung Mao sat apart from the rest , looked up as the three men approached , then , with the vaguest movement of his head to indicate that they should go on up , looked back down at the rifle in his lap , continuing his meticulous inspection of the weapon . |
| 15 | He sighed and looked back down at the page before closing the book . |
| 16 | He looked back down at the map again . |
| 17 | The voices belonged to Rohmer and Jimmy Devlin , but he could n't hear what they were arguing about as he hauled himself around the staircase rail , paused for gasping breath and looked back down into the stairwell . |
| 18 | The moon was now hidden by clouds as Ellie turned and looked back out of the window . |
| 19 | The window looked out on to the cobbled yard . |
| 20 | I sat at the open window and looked out on to the purple dark . |
| 21 | Depressed and disappointed , she went to the square of kitchen window and looked out on to the pool , which glittered in the moonlight , now flowing with the precious and expensive liquid which should have filled their most urgent needs . |
| 22 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 23 | The floor was stone-flagged , there was an enormous fireplace on the far side , and the windows looked out on to the gardens . |