Example sentences of "looks [adv prt] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 4 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 7 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 8 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He looks up at the class . |
| 13 | Across the waters , the magnificent Peter and Paul Fortress looks back at the shoreline . |
| 14 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 15 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
| 16 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |
| 17 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 18 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |