Example sentences of "looked at the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at the alarm clock . |
| 2 | Monica asked and looked at the wall map of the continent . |
| 3 | Julie cradled the mug of tea in both hands and looked at the wall clock on the other side of the kitchen . |
| 4 | She looked at the wall clock . |
| 5 | He looked at the sea captain . |
| 6 | For a moment , she looked at the tomato ketchup on the walls and thought of Gazzer 's graffiti . |
| 7 | He opened it and looked at the video tape cassette inside . |
| 8 | Pembrey ( 1980 ) , in her study of the role of the ward sister , looked at the management cycle in relation to the organisation of nursing care . |
| 9 | Bob Collins looked at the contact sheet through a magnifying glass . |
| 10 | Flavia stepped forward , looked : looked at her host , looked at the toy landscape — it was a homemade , handmade relief map of the vineyards of France . |
| 11 | Wexford looked at the memo Burden had left him before departing for Deptford : |
| 12 | I looked at the back seat , where a folder lay . |
| 13 | The friar looked at the hour candle which stood on the table behind him . |
| 14 | Fiona looked at the seating plan and said to meet at table six . |
| 15 | Kenne looked at the saloon door . |
| 16 | The judge looked at the airport policeman . |
| 17 | Scarlet , left alone in the house , looked at the breakfast table in horrified disgust : this feeling had first started some time before — she could n't remember when — as boredom . |
| 18 | She looked at the sample examination papers with alarm and concluded that she was lamentably ignorant about the way the world worked . |
| 19 | Peter looked at the stone bird , moving his hands along the parapet . |
| 20 | He looked at the ormolu clock behind her . |
| 21 | Lizzy looked at the kitchen clock and squealed . |
| 22 | So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course . |
| 23 | As soon as I got into my flat I looked at the Supersight club with great care . |
| 24 | We saw , was it last week , at our harvest festivals , we looked at the harvest time there , how God had led Ruth into contact , and into the field of Boaz , a man of great wealth ! |
| 25 | He looked at the copper bosom covers she had to wear as a belly dancer — and then at the less than fully-endowed nature of Miss Harris 's bust and said cuttingly , ‘ Which way up are they supposed to go ? ’ |
| 26 | The McGuire et al 's study looked at the medication regimen of a group of patients on admission and on discharge . |
| 27 | He looked at the number plate and realized that he had found the sole piece of ostentation Miss Morgan had allowed herself ; she had been Angela Jane Morgan and the car was AJM 563 . |
| 28 | He looked at the robot animal with big , round eyes . |
| 29 | I think last time I looked at the hire list , price , price list |
| 30 | Stefan , a thin , grey-faced , middle-aged man with stomach ulcers who had been production manager since the Hochhauser Season had begun , sat down at the table , looked at the balance sheet and the final sentence at the bottom and took a bottle of tablets from his pocket . |