Example sentences of "looking [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is no good not following those rules and then worrying when your teenager is not back at the expected time , looking nervously at the clock and twitching the curtains every time a car pulls up in your road . |
2 | He stood , looking thoughtfully at the ground ; then , coming to himself , he shook hands once again . |
3 | And a call … ’ he wiped his hand across his face , looking down at the moisture he rubbed off and laughing almost ironically . |
4 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
5 | I was still looking down at the girl in the grass . |
6 | Looking down at the top of Joe 's balding pate , Michael listened to the haunting childish voice and could have cried . |
7 | For nearly a minute he said nothing and I had the sense to keep quiet , too , looking down at the top of his head . |
8 | And she sat there , still looking down at the sand . |
9 | ‘ We 've been fortunate , so far , ’ the Governor said , looking down at the man lying in the bed . |
10 | Looking down at the man who had quietly assisted her and whose clothes were now covered in the other man 's blood , she said , ‘ You 'd better go with them as well . ’ |
11 | Hal Shepherd stood at the turn of the road , his hands resting lightly on the low stone wall , looking down at the row of cottages and the bay beyond . |
12 | Looking down at the river , she could see that the level had dropped , uncovering lines of bricks on the wall beneath them that looked as if they rarely saw the sun . |
13 | The Prince and McPhee had walked on to the top of the bank and were standing looking down at the river . |
14 | Looking down at the reflection of the stars in the still , calm sea below , she said softly , ‘ I 'm glad we came up here . |
15 | Craig Grenfell stood on the hilltop looking down at the scene in the graveyard below . |
16 | She was looking down at the water , which was only inches deep . |
17 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
18 | I cough again looking down at the tile floor of the room . |
19 | She 'll go up to you and she goes she looks at you like that and her eyes are all wide , sh sh she 's looking down at the wall like that to make sure it 's all clear , you know what I mean ? |
20 | If you walked up the brow at the back of the house you were in two minutes up on a great closely cropped bare turfy expanse , looking down at the sea ; and to the left all the indentations of the coastline , the bays , the beaches and coves within them , the tumble of rocks at the bottom of some sheer cliff , far west to lonely and uninhabitable shores , was visible . |
21 | There 's nothing finer than standing on the edge of a Dales hill like this looking down at the landscape strung out below . |
22 | Joanna rushed off and Sophie stood looking down at the telephone . |
23 | Turning up the collar of his Burberry against the chill morning air , he climbed up the slope to the rim of the hollow and stood looking down at the car . |
24 | ‘ I have always wanted Isabel to like me , ’ she said sadly , looking down at the box , ‘ but she never has . ’ |
25 | He did not touch , but stood looking down at the page . |
26 | Again she was silent for a moment or two , looking down at the carpet of tawny beech leaves , debris of the previous autumn , now shimmering in the dappled shafts of light which struggled through the tree canopy . |
27 | Then , looking down at the book again , she went on , ‘ Are you sure she 'll be happy in the room next to mine ? ’ |
28 | But now he trod carefully across the carpet to the bed and stood silently looking down at the body of Berowne . |
29 | The boy stood motionless still , looking down at the body . |
30 | He paused a moment , still looking down at the body , the head in the centre of a spreading pool of blood . |