Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] at [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , there I was lying on the pavement on my back , looking up the skirt of a very tall Quantas air hostess who was looking down at me in equal amazement . |
| 2 | There were a few houses whose wrought-iron balconies were crammed with plants : great pots of geraniums , full and dark , the flowers looking down at me like tiny faces , intently . |
| 3 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 4 | He stood up , looking down at her with eyes like splintered ice . |
| 5 | But he just raised his eyebrows , looking down at her with mocking disdain . |
| 6 | She dived into her bag and held out the necessary money , and at least it stopped him in his tracks , although it left him looking down at her with less than pleasure . |
| 7 | She only became aware of her rather foolish escapade when she found Alain towering over her , looking down at her with narrowed , amused eyes , his lips quirking very close to open laughter . |
| 8 | He suddenly swung her up into his arms , looking down at her with burning eyes . |
| 9 | Finally she was backed into a corner by the door , the horse guarding any escape route and the man looking down at her with dark , fathomless eyes . |
| 10 | ‘ I am ready , ’ he announced , pulling himself to the edge of the pool and looking down at her with no expression on his face to give her any clue about his attitude . |
| 11 | His dark brows rose in astonishment at this attack and then he slid his arms round her and pulled her towards him , looking down at her with the sort of expression a grown-up reserved for a naughty child . |
| 12 | It was fitzAlan , looking down at her with eyes that ripped her heart into pieces , speaking to her in a voice so hard that the words were like blows . |
| 13 | He was driving her crazy the way he was holding her and the way he was looking down at her with smouldering blue eyes . |
| 14 | He was looking down at her with a superior , amused smile on his face . |
| 15 | She was still rocking from the unexpected power his kisses had over her when , looking down at her from his lofty height , he mocked , ‘ Now try and tell me you are n't just anybody 's ! ’ |
| 16 | Suddenly those flaring sapphire eyes were inches from hers , looking down at her from great heights , forcing her to lift her chin a notch higher than was comfortable to look into them . |
| 17 | She made no move to resist , she never could and he lifted his head , looking down at her in amusement , putting her carefully from him and turning to the door . |
| 18 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 19 | Oliver was very surprised ; this was the same man he had bumped into once outside a pub , and seen another time with Fagin , looking in at him through the window of the country cottage . |
| 20 | She was looking up at me with an expression of concern . |
| 21 | The female gave a gasp of fear , looking up at me with her mouth open , revealing tongue and white teeth . |
| 22 | She closed it and leaned against it , looking up at me in an unconsciously provocative attitude . |
| 23 | Anyway , , the old shed looks well there er , I du n no why I started to look out and the cat was on his back legs with his feet like that and he was looking up at me like that ! |
| 24 | ‘ I say , sir , ’ said Pickerage , looking up at him with his Puck face , ‘ do n't you think that 's a bit exaggerated ? |
| 25 | There had been a series of photographs showing Adam with a series of women , each one more gorgeous than the last , and each one looking up at him with undisguised adoration . |
| 26 | She 'd offered to lend him the money to have the bike fixed , and when he accepted she said , ‘ I 've broken something precious , have n't I ? ’ and knelt in the street among the bits of glass , looking up at him as if she understood it was more than a lamp she had smashed . |
| 27 | She stayed as she was , looking up at him from beneath her long black lashes , allowing herself the faintest smile of pleasure . |
| 28 | ‘ So so , ’ said Julia , looking up at him from her pillows and smiling at the affection and the anxiety in his face . |
| 29 | In an effort to escape , she pressed herself back , looking up at him in bewilderment with unblinking , deep blue eyes . |
| 30 | But at least she was safe from the man on the ground , who now seemed to be recovering and was looking up at her with intense fury as he rubbed the area just below his ribs . |