Example sentences of "he look [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came down when she called me and found him standing in the living-room with a look of distaste on his face as he looked round at the overflowing ash trays , the dirty grate , the pile of chair cushions tumbled in the middle of the floor . |
| 2 | He looked round at the other rabbits , who were all staring either at Bigwig or at himself . |
| 3 | He looked round at the other diners . |
| 4 | As he pulled himself out , he looked round among the sopping rabbits in the alders . |
| 5 | He looked over to the childlike form on his bed and felt a protective instinct so strong he almost wept . |
| 6 | Turning slightly , and almost against his own will , he looked over at the dark graves . |
| 7 | He looked up into the black sky and waved his fist at the stars . |
| 8 | He looked up through the clear patch of windscreen at the clouds moving slowly and peacefully across the upper reaches of the sky . |
| 9 | Then , as it 's such a lovely evening — ’ he looked up at the painted sky ‘ — I thought I 'd wander along and see you . ’ |
| 10 | He looked up at the half-moon . |
| 11 | And then he looked up at the front window . |
| 12 | Then he looked up at the black smoke which came from the Forfarshire 's funnel . |
| 13 | He looked up at the lined , seamed face of the rat-catcher , framed by his black , tarry leather hood . |
| 14 | Then he looked up at the new young golden eagle who had been available under special government licence and brought in as her replacement . |
| 15 | He looked up at the great tower soaring above him . |
| 16 | Detective Inspector Frank Gregson tapped agitatedly on the steering wheel as he looked up at the red light , waiting for it to change . |
| 17 | He looked up at the pale white sky above the half-ruined trees . |
| 18 | A smell of new shoes from another workshop wafted around him as he looked up at the old , stopped clock jutting out , two-faced , over the pavement from the first floor of the workshop , hands frozen at twenty-past-two ( he glanced at his watch ; it was actually 3:49 ) . |
| 19 | He looked up at the clearing sky , darkening now into dusk . |
| 20 | He looked up at the white tower . |
| 21 | He looked up at the formidable stone keep of Gloucester Castle towering three storeys above him and wondered if there was danger within , although his task was straightforward enough . |
| 22 | Apparently Gagarin said that when he looked out of the right window of his spacecraft and glimpsed the earth for the first time , he had an experience or sense of — and then he used a word which the interpreter did not know the meaning of , so he had to go to another table and ask another interpreter to help . |
| 23 | He looked out at the green fields and trees . |
| 24 | Wriggling his toes with a sigh of relief , he looked out through the tall louvred doors to the deep marble terrace stretching the full length of the suite . |
| 25 | He looked out through the open shutters at the grey January sky over the strait , where the islands had vanished in frosty mist . |
| 26 | As he looked out over the familiar landscape that spring day , the poetic miracles which had begun in the lime-tree bower were coming to an end . |
| 27 | ‘ God , I hope so , ’ Whitlock said then got to his feet and moved to the balcony where he looked out over the illuminated New York skyline . |
| 28 | He looked out across the darkening moor , its becks and mires , its hills d bony ridges of granite . |
| 29 | Later in life he looked back upon the married time of his professorship at Durham as an idyll ; the paradisal years of his life . |
| 30 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |