Example sentences of "he looked [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he had recovered himself he looked up the narrow lane and saw a young boy racing into the distance , the white straw hat clutched in one hand and waving at his side as his arms pumped the air with the effort of running . |
| 2 | Charlie asked as he looked up the stairs . |
| 3 | He looked down the road but there was no sign of Lee . |
| 4 | He looked down the road but could see nobody ; the driver had hopped the fence but it was impossible to say where . |
| 5 | He looked down the road and decided on his course of action . |
| 6 | He looked down the street . |
| 7 | Rochers town , we were only a short way and we went to this house , we were only young coppers , and we had this friend call on us and we looked out , he was going back into the car and he looked down the street and he said , my God there 's an awful lot of children around here , they must do nothing but screw all the time |
| 8 | But he looked beyond the telephone book , and studied pricing and contracts in some detail . |
| 9 | He looked beyond the scudding clouds to the sea far beneath . |
| 10 | He looked past the blade . |
| 11 | He looked towards the bundle on the bed . |
| 12 | He was on his feet now , turning up his collar , pulling the tie around his neck the while he looked towards the house . |
| 13 | As he looked towards the Iconostasis , the wall that is filled with important and unique icons , he tried to re-create his grandfather 's torment , his inner pain and despair . |
| 14 | The Franciscan felt the hair on the back of his neck stir as he looked towards the door . |
| 15 | She thought , as what she said registered and he looked towards the couch , that he looked grateful , and wondered if he was vaguely remembering that the last time he 'd been plastered he had spent the night on that same couch . |
| 16 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 17 | He looked toward the Cathedral across the water . |
| 18 | He looked about the room appreciatively . |
| 19 | He looked about the room , conscious suddenly of the lowness of the ceiling , of the dark oak beams that divided up the whitewashed walls , the fresh cut roses in a silver bowl on the table in the corner . |
| 20 | First came old syndic Alphonse Frankenstein , bent of shoulder , grey of hair ; but his gaze , as he looked about the court , was still commanding . |
| 21 | Suddenly urgent to feed her , he looked about the table and discovered that there was only the one plate and set of utensils . |
| 22 | He believed he was as beautiful as ever when he looked into the glass , but perhaps the AIDS scare had stopped them picking up older men in bars . |
| 23 | On his right , Doyle 's pale blue eyes were steady under the black hair , his face doubly familiar and hated because Tug saw something very like it every time he looked into the mirror . |
| 24 | He looked into the living-room . |
| 25 | Chief Constable Burrows was outside his club in Friar Street when a fellow-member approached him and suggested he looked into the whereabouts of Philip Drew , an actor who was performing in a play called The Monster at Reading 's Royal Theatre at the time of the Oliver murder . |
| 26 | He looked into the mirror to see a pair of brown eyes looking at him levelly , appreciative of and amused by his scrutiny . |
| 27 | And something else ; something he saw as the curtain tore away and he looked into the depths of the unbelievable face above him , fractionally dulled his reflexes . |
| 28 | He looked into the turbulence , the red and the black at the heart of the Jackson Pollock painting . |
| 29 | He looked into the box and then immediately closed and left it . |
| 30 | He looked into the smiling blue eyes of the policeman . |