Example sentences of "looking [adv prt] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've got to stop hating , that 's all , ’ he said , looking down into the pit again . |
| 2 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |
| 3 | Benjamin walked over , past the baptismal font and stood looking down into the sanctuary . |
| 4 | She shivered a little , leaning on the balustrade and looking down into the darkness while he gave some instructions to the maid . |
| 5 | But this raised the problem that one eye was always looking down into the sand and was effectively useless . |
| 6 | Patrick lay looking down into the dell . |
| 7 | A private party in some high-rise apartment block ; looking down into the city from the forty-second floor , it was like being inside a radio , one of those old valve radios , and Jed almost told Creed what he thought , he almost blurted something Creed would n't even have understood , You must 've had radios thrown away some time , did n't you ? but the rush blew over and he was still staring down into the forest of lit buildings and he still had n't spoken . |
| 8 | He let her leave the room before going across to Aggie , who was standing now looking down into the fire , and he patted the back of her shoulder , saying , ‘ You 're doin' the best thing , Aggie , the only thing . |
| 9 | She heard him picking his way carefully down the spiral staircase at the back of the tenement and stood by the window , looking down into the street . |
| 10 | Nuala crossed to the window and perched on the ledge looking down into the street below . |
| 11 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |
| 12 | This thought came into Charles 's already overcrowded mind , and he found himself looking off into the wings , whence the fatal shot had come . |
| 13 | ‘ It has seemed like that , ’ he said sombrely , looking off into the distance . |
| 14 | Rohmer was looking up into the sky as the vortex of smoke and steam was greedily sucked skywards into the black roiling clouds of the storm . |
| 15 | Dexter stood at the bottom of the stairs , looking up into the gloom at their head . |
| 16 | ‘ The graveyard of St. Giles , ’ Sir James testily remarked , looking up into the night sky . |
| 17 | But anyway , very dramatic shot looking up into the mouth of the balloon with this huge flame going up . |
| 18 | Others designed the sculpture for a specific viewpoint , which can sometimes be reconstructed by looking up into the figure 's eyes . |
| 19 | Looking back into the past from the security of the present it is possible to pinpoint those elements which led to a change of viewpoint , the emergence of a new approach or a hasty retreat into well tried ways . |
| 20 | Towards the end of his life , Rackham wrote , ‘ As far as I can see , looking back into the past , it is not likely that the old Rackham book will ever come back ’ . |
| 21 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 22 | Looking back into the past , people are eager for an explanation to be given to them by Thames and I do think that people do n't feel that 's what they 've had so far . |
| 23 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 24 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 25 | ‘ You did n't think of opening your door and looking out into the corridor ? ’ she asked . |
| 26 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 27 | Fiona kept her face away from him , looking out into the night , watching the vertical bright line of light the car threw onto the serried mass of dark conifers . |
| 28 | With a keener sense of danger than the others , and finding it exhilarating , as they certainly would not , he had noticed at once that something was wrong , even before he had rubbed a clear patch on the steamy windows and , looking out into the night , had seen the horizon slowly rising , inch by inch . |
| 29 | He seemed agitated , restlessly pacing about , looking out into the crowds , then drawing back into the shelter of the arcade . |
| 30 | She was breathlessly aware of him and she walked across to the fence that faced the field she could see from her room and stood there looking out into the distance . |