Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baden-Powell was particularly fond of this extravagant , but nevertheless deeply felt historical posture , and he saw the shadow of Rome hanging over the huge crowds attending the football stadiums which he likened to the ‘ unmanly ’ attitude of the young Romans who loafed around the circus entertainments — ‘ they paid men to play their games for them , so that they could look on without the fag of playing , just as we are doing in football now ’ — as he charged into battle against this betrayal of the British traditions of ‘ fair play ’ and sportsmanship : |
| 2 | All the same he felt that he must look in at the hall before going to his hotel . |
| 3 | ‘ Would you care for a bit of supper , and then we could look in at the Area Ball . |
| 4 | I 've got an appointment with Shrimpton , the lawyer , at four and I shall look in at the shop afterwards . ’ |
| 5 | It is important to have that sort of relationship where someone can look in from the outside . ’ |
| 6 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 7 | It often gets me when I am in a high building or can look down over the city , or sometimes at a station when there is another journey to begin . |
| 8 | We could look down towards the sea , where the blue water seemed to scatter into a harmless white spray against the shore . |
| 9 | On that first occasion my father took me through Craven Hill Gardens into Porchester Terrace , showed me the blank brick back of the facades and lifted me up on to the wall so that I could look down into the shaft . |
| 10 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 11 | They are the ones who can look down on the competition from the grandstand near the finish on Westminster Bridge . |
| 12 | When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least . |
| 13 | Across the open space one could look down on the town , a busy , self-important place boosted in the last few years by highrise office blocks full of income-tax men and VAT clerks . |
| 14 | Now let's look down from the bridge . |
| 15 | To her credit , she tried very hard not to even once look over at the table , though she was being subjected to the constant tinkle of happy laughter , which made her think Matthew must be at his witty best . |
| 16 | At fire stations and first-aid posts and rest centres , men and women would look up at the sky just as she , Vi McKeown , was doing now . |
| 17 | I did n't look up at the sky . |
| 18 | He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator . |
| 19 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 20 | He did not look up towards the guard in the watch-tower . |
| 21 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 22 | Often when attempting to explain some aspect of my studies to fellow students who were having difficulties , I would look up from the textbook we were sharing to see an expression of sheer disbelief pass across their faces . |
| 23 | Her sister did not look up from the list of figures . |
| 24 | But I will not look up from the tray until I have it safely landed on the white plastic table . |
| 25 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |
| 26 | Only then did he look out across the land . |
| 27 | And when he came into the Pincushion Room and rested his elbows on the window-ledge , he would look out of the window at the garden bright with midsummer sun or bathed in moonlight and think , all this is mine , that garden , that fruit cage within the flint walls , that lake , the Little Wood , as far as I can see on either side of me and in front of the house and behind , all that is mine … |
| 28 | In winter you can look out of the window and tell it 's 2°C outside . |
| 29 | He then followed Duncan through the small terminal to where they could look out of the window at the tarmac ramp , on to the military side , where Duncan had seen the transporter . |
| 30 | Alice purposely did not look out of the window . |