Example sentences of "[noun pl] and look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 2 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 3 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 4 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 5 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 6 | The lassitude still on her , she came slowly to her feet and looked down at the boy , who stood up , shifting uneasily . |
| 7 | Fulke shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor . |
| 8 | Edward took off his shoes and looked out of the window . |
| 9 | Regrettably , even today , there are a number of health service insiders who feel that they are an exception to these general rules and look down on the ways of industry with the patronizing assurance of those who know that ‘ we are different ’ . |
| 10 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 11 | Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food . |
| 12 | There was little to do all day but climb in the old beeches and look out over the forest to see where the smoke plumes were . |
| 13 | Explore the underground installations , browse in the museum , stand by the guns and look out over the Channel as gunners did in two wars . |
| 14 | Try to pick a line through the birch forest on the northern slopes and look out for the wreckage of a World War II aeroplane on the north-eastern side . |
| 15 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 16 | The field was surrounded by trees and looked out towards the river upstream from the loch . |
| 17 | He forced open his windows and looked out over the courtyard , over the town to where what he now knew as Skiddaw stood in dusky largeness , a prehistoric beast couchant . |
| 18 | I recall her pacing the sitting-room while I am doing my homework , pausing every so often to stand at one of the windows and look down into the busy street below . |
| 19 | Getting out of bed , Rachel flung open the curtains and looked out at the September morning . |
| 20 | The children read , played games and looked out of the window ; they complained about the hardness of the seats and squabbled . |
| 21 | ‘ At Elland Road I was expected to go and win the ball and that was about all they liked ! ! — get the ball up to the big front men and look around for the knock downs ’ ( Batts obviously did nt look very hard cos he did nt find many ! ! ) |
| 22 | The little ledge on the vertical edge was in the shade and we sat and sucked sweets and looked back down the sweeping ridge to where we 'd started , hours ago . |
| 23 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 24 | The Wisharts read the remaining news in their papers and looked out of the window , the old lady was still silent and motionless . |
| 25 | He lifted back the drapes and looked out into the road . |
| 26 | A few miles to the south-west of Beverley the Scots raised their standard on the beacon at Hunsley , which marks almost the southern end of the Wolds and looks out across the Humber to Lincolnshire and across the Vale of York towards Selby and Doncaster . |
| 27 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |