Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Slowly I looked around at the other boys .
2 From the path below I looked back towards the house .
3 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 .
4 So I look up from the jigsaw I had for my birthday .
5 Denis made no acknowledgement but before turning away he looked up at the sky , now completely hidden in dark cloud .
6 As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before .
7 Instinctively she looked up at the sky .
8 Then instinctively she looked back at the building , and upwards towards Luke 's room .
9 It 's as if he still lives there , so when I go past I look up at the window I 'd put him in .
10 Helplessly I look up from the patient .
11 Now I looked up at the ‘ sonic ’ photos on the wall .
12 And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun .
13 Now he looked down at the table top , then sideways at his colleagues and back at Cameron .
14 Oh well I look out onto the window and see that it 's
15 Moodily she looked down at the ground .
16 Ash-Wednesday , for all its renunciation , does at times look towards the childhood of the race , but more strongly it looks back to the poet 's own childhood with which this primitivism is associated , as Eliot looks back , in language mixing ‘ Gerontion ’ , Virgil , and a new interest in his own childhood .
17 Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ?
18 Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room .
19 Then I looked back at the table .
20 Then I looked out of the window and saw her with Tony Duncan .
21 Sometimes I looked out of the window at the grey November afternoon , and saw the rain pouring down on the leafless garden .
22 Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early .
23 And then she looked back at the bed and saw the naked longing in his eyes , and something that was better than desire and that was more enduring than passion broke within her , and she moved forward , and said , ‘ Oh , my dear love ’
24 And then he looked up at the front window .
25 Then he looked up at the Trunchbull , then at the tall stringy cook with her lemon-juice mouth .
26 Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement .
27 Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel .
28 He enjoyed his meal , and then he looked up at the waiter , smiled and said , ‘ I have n't got any money , you know .
29 Then he looked up at the sky , and saw the plane just before it went behind a cloud on its way to Port au Prince airport .
30 Then he looked up at the portrait of Sir Humphrey Agnew and smiled .
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