Example sentences of "looks [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their work carries highly charged images of male sexuality , such as ‘ Naked Beauty ’ where two young , naked models abase themselves before an open , budding flower , while George looks on with the impassivity of a voyeur . |
| 2 | The General looks on as a cadet is singled out to deliver his orders to others from his platoon . |
| 3 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 4 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 5 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 6 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 7 | She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug . |
| 8 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
| 9 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 10 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 11 | Nor does it have much of a view , since it looks down into the stable . |
| 12 | Inside , the room is richly decorated with a fine scrolled plaster overmantel , dated 1572 , and a little musicians ' gallery which looks down into the hall through a row of arches set high up in the cornice . |
| 13 | He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . |
| 14 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 15 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 16 | Now , suddenly , a jay looks down from a hiding place in a lichened oak and slips away without breaking the silence : stealthy , cunning , typical of the inveterate egg thief . |
| 17 | Or take the many references to God as a being who looks down upon the world from some sort of celestial vantage point . |
| 18 | She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai . |
| 19 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 20 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 21 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 22 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 23 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 24 | Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future . |
| 25 | He looks up at the class . |
| 26 | The river is broad here , about two hundred yards , and from its banks one looks up to the baroque turrets of the Benedictine monastery of Stift Göttweig , perched high on its wooded hill . |
| 27 | Fortunately , Leinster 's front five , which includes the experienced tight-head prop Des Fitzgerald , looks up to the task of scrummaging against the All Blacks . |
| 28 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |
| 29 | The other feller looks up from the divan . |
| 30 | Robyn looks up from the copy of North and South from which she has been reading this passage , and surveys her audience with her cool , grey-green eyes . |