Example sentences of "[conj] he look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he stared down at his half-empty glass Billy became aware of Freddie watching him closely and he looked up at the schemer suddenly , fixing him with a cold stare . |
| 2 | He thought suddenly of how she must look , seen from inside the kitchen she was leaning out of ; an ugly sexual idea occurred to him , and he looked about for the big black BMW bike , but it was n't there . |
| 3 | But already the noise was diminishing , the violence of the anger subsiding as rapidly as it had built up , and he looked back at the audience to see people taking their places again , Gerrard and the earphoned men in shirtsleeves moving quickly and purposefully among them , urging them into seats . |
| 4 | A movement caught his eye and he looked back at the man standing on the steps of the rear coach . |
| 5 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 6 | Rory could n't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought , and he looked down from the stepladder at the sound . |
| 7 | About two weeks later , the old gentleman saw another white sheet with black letters when he looked out of the train . |
| 8 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 9 | As he looked over at the stranger he suddenly became aware of someone else in the room . |
| 10 | He stayed , however , and as he looked around at the faces of Frankie and Chopper he worried . |
| 11 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 12 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 13 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ Man wounded , ’ said Charlie in a loud whisper as he looked up towards the trenches . |
| 15 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 16 | As he looked down at the body he used to love , he thanked God for letting him arrive in time . |
| 17 | ‘ They tell me betting-shops are littered with torn-up betting-slips , ’ said Morse , as he looked down at the two pink slips that Ashenden had handed to him . |
| 18 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 19 | A sense of gloom blanketed his thought as he looked down to the dark water and heard the hiss of it rushing over the invisible weir ahead of him . |
| 20 | For a moment , as he looked out of the window , his mind became clear again and he thought : " My God , the sepoys are attacking . |
| 21 | As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system . |
| 22 | It is easy to see how the plot of We Did n't Mean To Go To Sea hatched , as he looked out into the distance and remembered a time when as a young man his anchor had dragged , and he had found himself sailing out to sea at night . |
| 23 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 24 | However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw . |