Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked down into the hole . |
| 2 | From there they crawled the last ten yards to the edge of a rise and looked down into the valley . |
| 3 | Not realising how clearly she could be seen against the light , she looked down into the courtyard . |
| 4 | Sarella looked down into the courtyard where Peter was busily taking off his skis . |
| 5 | He limped to the side of the roof and looked down into the yard . |
| 6 | Marian crossed to the stair and looked down into the chamber they had left . |
| 7 | The texture of the novel is in part created by the juxtaposition of dead metaphors and new ones created by slight adjustments to the normal patterns of the language : " … the sun looked down into the top of the dead tree and breathed warmly on the two people " ( p. 142 ) . |
| 8 | She came to it and stood and looked down into the dragon 's mouth . |
| 9 | I looked down into the punt and saw Rachel gazing up at me from beneath a wide straw hat . |
| 10 | He looked down into the water , conscious of her image there in front of him . |
| 11 | Charles stood on the narrow pavement , leaning on the wooden parapet , and looked down into the water , which seemed infinitely deep in the darkness . |
| 12 | Gripping the bannister , she looked down into the hall and saw him standing with his back to the door , looking about him as though wondering if he would find her there . |
| 13 | He looked down into the room below . |
| 14 | He looked down into the fire , his lashes low on his cheeks . |
| 15 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 16 | He went to the window and looked down into the street . |
| 17 | Lucien walked to the front edge of the roof again , looked down into the street . |
| 18 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 19 | When she looked down into the channel with Gazzer and saw Simon , water swilling round his waist , she could hardly believe that she was responsible . |
| 20 | It did not look very neat , he had to admit , but unless the prospective buyer looked down into the cabinet the bodgery would not be discovered . |
| 21 | Shepherd moved closer and looked down into the viewer . |
| 22 | ‘ No , you did n't scream until you looked off into the wings . ’ |
| 23 | When I looked up into the mirror again , he was moving , crawling towards something behind him . |
| 24 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 25 | Smallfry looked up into the darkness . |
| 26 | Well then er quite , so he said erm it was all quiet and I looked up into the darkness and I said that the old fellow had gone and he litten his fuse and there was me there I could see the sparks in the darkness and I was way twenty feet below him and he must have whatsit . |
| 27 | As in Protevangelium ; And I looked up into the pole of the heavens and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion … |
| 28 | But when we looked up into the trees , we could see their dreys ; untidy rounded twiggy ‘ nests ’ tucked into forks between branch and trunk . |
| 29 | He looked up into the face of the Colonel . |
| 30 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |