Example sentences of "[pers pn] looked [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I looked again at the taut group riveted to the game , now not even speaking , I had my doubts . |
| 2 | I looked again at the little cat . |
| 3 | As they swung past me I looked again at the SPs and my hear gave a thud . |
| 4 | I looked round the room , then I looked again at the old man . |
| 5 | Then I looked again at the passenger opposite me . |
| 6 | I looked again at the passenger on my left . |
| 7 | Each time I looked away from the road , the wheelbarrow fell over . |
| 8 | I looked away from the sea , behind the sliver of beach , where the hills first rose steeply , then flattened out . |
| 9 | Sitting on my own behind them on the return journey I looked straight at the innocently sensuous lips of Isabella Rossellini , advertising a perfume near traffic lights . |
| 10 | I looked over to the corner where a pretty girl with long brown hair and freckles was sitting . |
| 11 | As I held it , I knew if I looked over to the bed he 'd be there , hands behind his head , stealing , this time , an image of his widow . |
| 12 | I looked over to the side wall where the postern gate stood and went cold with terror . |
| 13 | I looked over towards the Pasanggrahan Hotel , and the balcony from which we had longingly watched so many prahus which we could not sail aboard . |
| 14 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 15 | I looked helplessly at the doctor . |
| 16 | I looked sadly at the sea , but stayed in my box , and after a while I fell asleep . |
| 17 | Then I looked closer at the clock . |
| 18 | I looked forward to the banquet and wondered idly whether Swire Sugden would turn up and spoil it . |
| 19 | I looked forward to the visit not only because visitors from Lord Darlington 's days are most rare now — Mr Farraday 's circle , naturally , being quite different from his lordship 's — but also because I presumed Mr Graham would accompany Sir James as of old , and I would thus be able to get his opinion on this question of bantering . |
| 20 | I now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish . |
| 21 | I looked forward to the time when I could speak well enough to talk to them . |
| 22 | But colleagues , five years ago I looked forward to the merger between G M B and Apex and predicted by the year two thousand there would be only four major unions in Britain , call them the four super unions . |
| 23 | I looked forward to the exam with dread . |
| 24 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 25 | I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road . |
| 26 | I looked round at the class , my finger hovering above the tape-recorder . |
| 27 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 28 | I looked round at the faces . |
| 29 | I looked round at the picture of Bruce Lee , the travel poster of Malaysia my dad gave me , my certificate of merit for Grade Two Saxophone , my 320 computer discs , my colour picture of an iguana and the tattered remains of a portable snooker table we got when I was twelve . |
| 30 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |