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

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1 However , second seed Stefan Edberg can afford a smile as he looks up from the bottom of the draw .
2 He looked up from the board , realising his concentration had been broken .
3 He looked up from the desk , caught her at a moment when , against her will , tears had filled her eyes .
4 He looked up from the newspaper and looked coldly at them .
5 He looked up from the document he was reading and his eyes lingered on her body before he sat back and raised his eyebrows quizzically , waiting for her to speak .
6 He looked up from the puddle of sepia .
7 As I was pulling the institutional door of his office shut behind me he looked up from the reading matter he had taken up again and said , ‘ And Ian — ’
8 He looked up from the menu he was studying and smiled suddenly .
9 He looked up from the photograph , totally unruffled .
10 He looked up from the cake at Mama .
11 He looked up from the list he was making .
12 Again he looked up from the paper and smiled conciliatingly at his audience .
13 He looked up from the scroll , thoughtful and faintly frowning : ‘ You know what the Lord Owen writes to me ? ’
14 While they fought to draw water from a broken tap , he looked on from the safety of his armoured tram , sipping iced champagne .
15 He looked back from the road , and could still see her in her white dress , standing modestly apart from the dancers .
16 Rory could n't suppress a soft chuckle at the thought , and he looked down from the stepladder at the sound .
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