Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] and down [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes looked up and down the street anxiously . |
| 2 | I put my head out of the door which was directly beside the hanging space , and looked up and down the corridor . |
| 3 | He looked up and down the road , saw nothing , climbed into his truck and drove off . |
| 4 | Aggie looked up and down the narrow street ; then , taking a chain with a lock attached to it from under a piece of sacking in the corner of the cart , she pushed the cart close to the gate , and tied a leg of it to the iron post . |
| 5 | Outside , she looked up and down the road ; then turning to Millie , she said , ‘ There 's nobody here now . ’ |
| 6 | She looked up and down the quiet street , where the lights made golden leafy spaces in the trees . |
| 7 | He opened the door with a shaking hand , then looked up and down the street . |
| 8 | She stood still for a moment and looked up and down the street ; it seemed to shine ; the light the sun had poured onto the packed dirt of the road glowed back pewter under the stars ; there was no longer any moon , it had set earlier that night , and the dimensions of the scene had expanded , creating a vacancy which made Rosa feel her pulse quicken , as if she too were growing , becoming less stubby , less compact , stretching upwards and turning silvery herself like the leaf of an olive when the breeze lifts it and shows its metallic underside . |
| 9 | He looked up and down the street . |
| 10 | Twoflower stepped gingerly over the cooling door and looked up and down the corridor . |
| 11 | As she left the phone box , she looked up and down the street for other shops . |
| 12 | Furtively she looked up and down the street . |
| 13 | Owen looked up and down the river . |