Example sentences of "[verb] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 2 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 4 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 5 | We could n't often see them from the main road which passed in front of the building because they were forbidden to look out of the windows . |
| 6 | Cascade is not so demure , proffering itself to anyone who cares to look up from the road — an many do . |
| 7 | Wants to look around for the wallet while I 'm not here , thought Joe . |
| 8 | Not that he wants to look out of the window any longer . |
| 9 | The idea of going out in the garden to sit looking back towards the house was popular , as was the line of the path , laid in stock bricks in a colour best described as crushed strawberry . |
| 10 | Here I sit looking out over the sea , on this little rag of an island , Uskair . |
| 11 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 12 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 13 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 14 | Her face tilts to look up into the sky where there ought to be stars . |
| 15 | In the street below the house with the dome people were pausing to look up at the arrows in the spike . |
| 16 | The Castle was faintly lit by the soft light of the moon , and Grainne , pausing to look down over the courtyard through a small side window , saw how the countryside was bathed in radiance . |
| 17 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 18 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 19 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 20 | There were paintings stacked at the side of the room — whether finished or not , she did not know — but the thing that was most touching , the thing that stopped her forward momentum was a chair by the lower window , obviously placed to look out over the valley and the distant forest . |
| 21 | I must admit I kept him tied up for longer than I was advised as I wanted to make sure he was capable of moving about safely as he invariably would want to look out of the door and then go back to his food . |
| 22 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 23 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 24 | For example , in a fast-moving train it is better to look at the horizon than at the close landscape — it is even better to avoid looking out of the window . |
| 25 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 26 | They had gone into the largest of the rock shelters , one which he himself used when he felt very bold and did not mind looking out over the vacancy of the Waste . |
| 27 | They 're very wide ranging , and if er , Chair , if members would , would just like to look down at the list of er , options , without going through er , each one individually , but they do range from er , work with er former cottage hospitals , er , front room day care , the further development of home care cooperatives , work er , for people who er , have spinal injuries , who have intake , and er , an interpreter service for , for people who have a hearing loss , and particularly er , helping er , the Shropshire Disability Consortium to set up an interpreting service in the county . |
| 28 | He left the convent with Amsterdam , not turning to look back at the ancient pile . |
| 29 | ‘ Fair enough , ’ I said , turning to look out across the water and drinking my pint . |
| 30 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |