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Example sentences of "i looked [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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 round the room , then I looked again at the old man .
3	I looked again at the little cat .
4	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 .
5	I now had the incentive to train even harder , and I looked forward to the outdoor season with considerable relish .
6	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 .
7	I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road .
8	I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old .
9	As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye .
10	Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
11	I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation .
12	As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about .
13	As I approached I looked wonderingly at the slight figure with the soft fairish hair falling over his brow , at the holed cardigan and muck-encrusted wellingtons .
14	Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm
15	I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin .
16	Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
17	I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando .
18	I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti .
19	I looked apprehensively at the five operating-type tables spaced far from each other round the wide tiled room .
20	I looked doubtfully at the rickety structure of planks and corrugated iron .
21	Leaving my car outside the farm I looked warily into the front garden before venturing between the walls .
22	I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling .
23	I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last .
24	I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy .
25	Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion .
26	I looked back at the first .
27	Wistfully , I looked back at the haunting beauty of the well .
28	I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time .
29	Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to .
30	Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool .