Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 2 | From the path below I looked back towards the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I put it inside cos I looked in I looked up in the atlas and there is a town called . |
| 5 | Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Instinctively she looked up at the sky . |
| 8 | Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It vanished as the wide sweep of grey-blue sea fell beneath the rising ground behind the town , and as the bus trundled westward I looked out on a landscape of untroubled peace . |
| 11 | Now I looked up at the ‘ sonic ’ photos on the wall . |
| 12 | Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron . |
| 13 | Moodily she looked down at the ground . |
| 14 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 15 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 16 | Then I looked out of the window and saw her with Tony Duncan . |
| 17 | Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon , and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ’ |
| 20 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 21 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 22 | Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth . |
| 23 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 24 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
| 25 | He enjoyed his meal , and then he looked up at the waiter , smiled and said , ‘ I have n't got any money , you know . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled . |
| 28 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 29 | Then he looked up towards the back , and Shelley knew , with a sudden shock , that he must be looking for her , but she was too nervous to stand up . |
| 30 | 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 . |