Example sentences of "[noun prp] looked [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cunningham looked up from his desk with a frown of irritation . |
| 2 | Hennessy looked up from replacing his pen in his jacket pocket , and called out a warning . |
| 3 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 4 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 5 | A picture of Nicolae Ceauşescu looked down over these proceedings , which were graced by the presence of the Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin , Mrs Thatcher 's former chemistry tutor at Oxford ( though she had no sympathy for ‘ that woman ’ ) who had contributed an introduction to an English translation of one of Elena 's works . |
| 6 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 7 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 8 | Marie looked back at Simon . |
| 9 | Marie looked down at Simon . |
| 10 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |
| 11 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 12 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 13 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 14 | Dora looked up from her chair and caught her eye . |
| 15 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 16 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 17 | Bert looked up from his Star . |
| 18 | The stairs were bare , and before mounting them Millie looked down at Aggie 's stockinged feet and said , ‘ Are n't you afraid of getting splinters ? ’ |
| 19 | Downes looked down at his wristwatch , and at last turned away , walking back along the bare platform towards the footbridge — where he was confronted by the bulk of the broad-shouldered Lewis . |
| 20 | Robert Crossley looked down at his companion huddled in the passenger seat of the Orion , his broken leg stretched out before him . |
| 21 | Crossley looked down at the corpse , the breeze bringing the stench of blood and excrement to his nostrils . |
| 22 | And then one evening I rang the bell and then I noticed the lock was up , so I pushed the door open and looked up the stairs , at the same time as Toinette looked down round the door . |
| 23 | Ari looked up at this prompt . |
| 24 | As we entered the kitchen Pat looked up at the roof and the large gaping hole caused by a shell that had passed through two floors then smashed through the kitchen door , ending up in the garden . |
| 25 | Maisie looked up at him , skilled , as ever , in the ways of dutiful daughters . |
| 26 | Len Hatch looked up from the tall tomato plants that he was tending , then looked back to what he was doing . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's not quite as easy as that , ’ she said , her voice so full of sympathy that Dana looked up in alarm . |
| 28 | Xanthe looked out of the taxi windows at the throng swinging down the pavement , the broad plane leaves shifting and the jackets still unfastened , panels loose , in these first mild days of autumn . |
| 29 | Bernice looked around at the city . |
| 30 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |