Example sentences of "and look [adv] at the " in BNC.

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1 BLUE PLANET 's sensational photography explores continents and oceans , and looks too at the forces that influence our environment : storms , volcanoes , earthquakes , typhoons and , perhaps the most powerful of all , Mankind .
2 ‘ A case for galoshes , ’ remarked the Substitute , tossing a cigar end out of the jeep and looking around at the steam rising slowly from the wet earth .
3 I was on my third cup of coffee and looking around at the other coolies when I saw a familiar blue overcoat coming through the door from the street .
4 But lying there beside her , listening to the susurration of the tide and looking up at the sky through a haze of grasses he was filled , not with post-coital sadness , but with an agreeable languor as if the long-committed Sunday afternoon still stretched ahead of them .
5 ‘ So I 've heard , ’ answered George , rolling onto his back and looking up at the sky , while he chewed a stalk of grass .
6 And I 'd stand there , easing my aching back , and looking up at the stars .
7 ‘ I wonder where Barbs is ? ’ said Tim , stopping and looking up at the bedroom windows .
8 ‘ The wiseacres of the village ’ , so Joseph Cottle heard from Coleridge , ‘ had … made Mr. W. the subject of their serious conversation ’ and concluded that a man so given to wandering the hills at late hours ‘ like a partridge ’ , and looking strangely at the moon , must either be a conjuror , a smuggler , or worst of all ‘ a desperd French jacobin ’ who was spying out the ground for a French invasion .
9 Sammy stood on the mat shaking his fur by the open door and looking out at the sheets of rain that were now whipping across the graveyard .
10 Now I find I 'm getting " inspired top-off-the-brain " signals and ideas while travelling in an aeroplane — at the window and looking out at the snowy cotton-wool cloud land ( no artificial stimulants ! ) .
11 No other words were needed and he stood , walking to the window and looking out at the courtyard that was bathed in sunlight .
12 I remember standing at the back of The Lyceum and looking down at the crowd .
13 ‘ I 'm glad for you , ’ Jenna snapped , standing and looking down at the angry face .
14 She saw that the leader of the religious group had separated himself from the majority and was standing near to the sea 's edge and looking directly at the horizon .
15 Then he remembered his mother and Stefan and made himself go back and look up at the bodies till he did n't mind any more .
16 Far away along the path we saw him turn and look back at the hound .
17 No , it 's just somewhere to sit in and look out at the en , er the ships and boats going by .
18 I stand in front of it and look up at the lights .
19 I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky .
20 I stop under a lamppost and look up at the light , all orange and flickery .
21 Walk through and look up at the Parler net vaulting with the crown of Bohemia on the boss .
22 Stand here and look up at the River Esk a famous salmon fishing river ; and across the river at St. Mary 's church , at the top of 199 steps , furnished by local shipwrights .
23 I lie on my back and look up at the eternal sweep of marble skies .
24 I stop for a moment at my gate and look up at the windows of my house .
25 I enter the day and date in my diary and look again at the entry of the 12th June .
26 You may find it helpful to read these items first , and then go back and look carefully at the explanations underneath .
27 Creggan saw Minch staring intently out into this nothingness , and then drop forward to the front of her cage and look fixedly at the benches , and at the harmless litter bin which Woil had used as a stance during his brief escape .
28 Immediately they stop talking and look anxiously at the door .
29 ‘ We could sit on this rock , ’ Hope pointed to a jutting flat stone , ‘ and look out at the lake . ’
30 I drink my whisky and look out at the inky loch .
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