Example sentences of "and looked [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 2 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 3 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 4 | He sat down in the deck chair , loosened his collar and tie , then lay back and looked up into the dark coolness of the oak branches . |
| 5 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
| 6 | Berdichev huffed impatiently and looked up at the overhead camera . |
| 7 | Cranston stepped back and looked up at the lead-paned windows . |
| 8 | She paused and looked up at the small gentle fields for the placid yellow outline of the Jersey cow . |
| 9 | He stretched , cracking muscles , and looked up at the small window above the high altar , pleased to see it would be a fair day . |
| 10 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 11 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 12 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 13 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 14 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 15 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 16 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 17 | We had dinner on top of a tall building in Tapiola and looked out across the ice-locked offshore islands . |
| 18 | They sat down on some chairs by the window , and looked out across the Rivoli Gardens . |
| 19 | They both turned and looked out across the fresh greenery sparkling in the April sunlight towards the solitary plume of blue smoke . |
| 20 | Edward stopped and looked out across the open sea . |
| 21 | Carefully , he straightened and looked out through the fluted glass in the upper part of the door . |
| 22 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 23 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 24 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 25 | Tom stood up and looked out at the freshly-weeded graveyard . |
| 26 | Elisabeth knelt on the window-seat and looked out at the ancient trees through the columns of the colonnade . |
| 27 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 28 | " You 've no imagination , " Graham said the other day , as we stood at the window of what was going to be the baby 's room , and looked out at the muddy patch behind our house . |
| 29 | ‘ Hmm , ’ she grumbled , then sat back and looked out at the rush-hour traffic crawling into London on the M4 . |
| 30 | She rose and went to the window , still in the half-real state induced by daytime sleeping , and looked out at the darkening world where the yellow glow of a lamp in the yard showed Jem was milking . |