Example sentences of "[pron] looked [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 31 | I looked out at the rain , and the grey sea and rocks between the trees . |
| 32 | I looked out at the rain instead ; it was cheerier . |
| 33 | ‘ I kept thinking today how lucky I was , you see , how blessedly fortunate , with all I have , all that is so comfortable , all that makes me so — so much happier than I was , and then this evening I went to the Rectory and when I returned I was in my room and I looked out at the darkness and I thought of you and how lonely you must be after all the company and society you have known just recently and I thought — I thought — ’ |
| 34 | I looked out at the school . |
| 35 | Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well . |
| 36 | I looked back at the house as Adrian drove away . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 39 | I looked back at the bed , at June rigid in ecstasis , her eyes blank and upturned . |
| 40 | I looked back at the first . |
| 41 | I looked back at the figure , which had not moved , which continued to stare at me from the shade through the sunlight over the gulley . |
| 42 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 43 | I looked back at the alley . |
| 44 | I looked back at the corner and he waved . |
| 45 | I looked back at the school buildings . |
| 46 | Then I looked back at the table . |
| 47 | I looked back at the rabbit , then got up and knelt over it . |
| 48 | I looked back at the silhouette of the house through a haze of sun : tall chimneys and mellow brickwork in the older part . |
| 49 | I looked down at the money again . |
| 50 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 51 | I looked down at the sea breaking on the rocks . |
| 52 | I looked down at the perfect rosebud lips , the determined chin and the tiny clenched fists of my cub . |
| 53 | I looked down at the chart and saw that the island was not so very far off our course , and I knew that the Beechcraft was brim-full with fuel . |
| 54 | I looked down at the viscid mess and up to meet his dry smile . |
| 55 | I looked down at the pretty patterns that streets do n't know they make . |
| 56 | I looked down at the glistening pavements . |
| 57 | I looked down at the four orange cards on the counter , lining them up evenly . |
| 58 | The sun flooded the ward , painting a red halo round Marek 's head and throwing Dexter 's face , which looked down at the floor disconsolately , into purple shadow . |
| 59 | Paul , you looked up at the times . |
| 60 | It was quite funny when you looked round at the end , you know , and everyone was just getting up |