Example sentences of "looked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 2 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 3 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 4 | Five London dealers plus Harrods , which plans a display next week , carried off nearly half the lots while Vietnam government officials , the vendors , looked on from the balcony . |
| 5 | While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne . |
| 6 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 7 | McLeish stopped at the door of the interview room and looked in through the spy-hole , wanting to get some feel for the evidently hostile and , by all accounts , neurotic Penelope Huntley . |
| 8 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 9 | I stopped in the lane for a moment , as I often do , before I climbed the steps to the front door , and looked in through the windows . |
| 10 | He approached , and looked in at the boy . |
| 11 | She came round the side of the house and looked in at the bay window . |
| 12 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 13 | When Coffin returned from central London late that night , he looked in at the TAS office . |
| 14 | Coming to the gate , he looked in at the cottage and instantly recognized the fourth photograph in Heather 's collection . |
| 15 | He looked in on the President . |
| 16 | She made her escape from the table , boiled the kettle and looked in on the children . |
| 17 | On Wednesday evening , the Admiral looked in on the club after dinner and Amiss heard him say goodnight to the five , remarking that he had a little work to do in the office , after which he would get back home and turn in : he looked forward to seeing them the following day . |
| 18 | And then he gave order that all the windows of the towers which looked in upon the town should be closed up , that the Christians might not see what the Moors did in their houses ; and the Moors thanked him for this greatly . |
| 19 | But she looked down through the glass skylight and recognised in Maggie 's cropped hair and long white body the same contours that she had seen in that other virgin warrior whom she had inspired into battle . |
| 20 | She looked down through the wards where the festive celebrations had momentarily stopped . |
| 21 | As they went up , he looked down through the skeleton of the wheel with its spindly metal bones . |
| 22 | Meg looked down through the trees . |
| 23 | ‘ I wish I were you , ’ Alexandra said , ‘ I wish I were a mouse , ’ and then , drawn inexorably , she leaned forward across the table and looked down through the closed window at her mother 's upturned face below . |
| 24 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 25 | I looked down towards the end of the straight . |
| 26 | Charles raised his head above the line of the rock and looked down towards the hut . |
| 27 | You 'd better know now that I 've always avoided every snare set out for me , even those hidden in lush undergrowth … ’ he caressed her hair lightly , his eyes sultry , and then looked down towards the swell of her breasts ‘ … and innocent-looking hills and valleys . ’ |
| 28 | On either side of him the warders looked down onto the other landings , watching for any signs of unrest amongst those below . |
| 29 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 30 | He could hear her barking and looked down over the steep side of the embankment to the bottom of the trees . |