Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] look [adv prt] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
2 I glanced at her , trying to hide my embarrassment with a swift and flippant response , but I could think of nothing to say and so I looked back at the binnacle , then up to the long moon-burnished sea ahead .
3 Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud .
4 As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before .
5 Instinctively she looked up at the sky .
6 Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room .
7 It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in .
8 She tried to find herself on the map , but the printed boulevards and blocks writhed whenever she looked up at the street , making new patterns .
9 Now I looked up at the ‘ sonic ’ photos on the wall .
10 Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron .
11 Moodily she looked down at the ground .
12 Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ?
13 Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
14 Then I looked back at the table .
15 Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early .
16 And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’
17 And then he looked up at the front window .
18 Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth .
19 Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement .
20 Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel .
21 He enjoyed his meal , and then he looked up at the waiter , smiled and said , ‘ I have n't got any money , you know .
22 Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport .
23 Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled .
24 Then he looked round at the roses climbing the old red walls , the pink and white flowers on the fruit trees , and the birds and the butterflies everywhere .
25 Then he looked down at the enormous cake .
26 Then he looked back at the teacher .
27 Then he looked back at the T'ang , standing there , pouring a second bowl for his father .
28 Then he looked back at the hole in the ground .
29 Silently he looked round at the tumbledown hut amid the zooming bees .
30 I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin .
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