Example sentences of "he look [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He looked over to the mainland .
2 He looked up to the windows of Rose 's flat .
3 He looked back to the road where yet more French cavalry had appeared , and he knew it could not be long before the first French eight-pounder cannon arrived .
4 He looked back to the Yalta conference as the beginning of a betrayal of European interests by the Superpowers and was determined to assert a new ‘ European ’ role in world affairs , which would also reduce East-West tensions .
5 He looked back to the letter , and went through it again — still thinking and frowning .
6 He looked back to the era ( pre-industrialism ) before the things we consider ‘ natural ’ — prisons , asylums , hospitals — had been devised , in order to trace the ‘ genealogy ’ of pseudosciences like penology , criminology , psychiatry and sexology .
7 He looked down to the gallery where the Santerres now stood outside the hall door .
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