Example sentences of "[noun prp] look [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 2 | And as he goes under the hooves Andy looks around for John , eyes wide , but John can not help him . |
| 3 | Andy looks up at John . |
| 4 | Steven looks up from call to opposite number in Coventry . |
| 5 | Scott looks back at it as someone who has learned a great deal and contributed to shifting opinion about private and statutory sector relationships . |
| 6 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 7 | One can picture Hoskyns looking down from the skies and being grateful for his pupil ; and Bethune-Baker looking down and thinking that he always knew where Hoskyns might lead the Churches . |
| 8 | Athelstan felt slightly ridiculous , he and Sir John sitting on the bed , Buckingham and Sir Richard looking down at them . |
| 9 | In the photograph that the studio had acquired the four men brought to trial in Detroit look out at us almost belligerently announcing their status as ordinary guys ; they wear poor suits and no ties , they are unshaven , and they clutch their hats . |
| 10 | Later I turned a page and uttered a gasp of stunned surprise that made Edward look up from the manuscript he scrutinized . |
| 11 | Waqar and Ramiz look on as the umpire examine the ball at Lord 's . |
| 12 | There was some nuance of intimacy in her tone that made Richard look up in surprise and then look at Frank . |
| 13 | I should like to see the new Techniquest look out across a natural estuary that has seen the tide rise and fall for a million years . |
| 14 | Cunningham looked up from his desk with a frown of irritation . |
| 15 | Hennessy looked up from replacing his pen in his jacket pocket , and called out a warning . |
| 16 | Hennessy looked down at the slip of paper that he was being offered . |
| 17 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 18 | A picture of Nicolae Ceauşescu looked down over these proceedings , which were graced by the presence of the Nobel Prize winner Dorothy Hodgkin , Mrs Thatcher 's former chemistry tutor at Oxford ( though she had no sympathy for ‘ that woman ’ ) who had contributed an introduction to an English translation of one of Elena 's works . |
| 19 | Ruthven looked up at the birds wheeling and twisting against the blue sky . |
| 20 | David looked down at her as she lay against the white pillows , pale and thinner than ever , and thought how much easier it would be to keep himself in check if her husband treated her with the gentleness she deserved . |
| 21 | Marie looked back at Simon . |
| 22 | Marie looked down at Simon . |
| 23 | Corbett looked back across the galley to where Selkirk and de Craon were standing near the far ship rail . |
| 24 | Corbett looked back at the tavern doorway now thronged with onlookers . |
| 25 | Someone 's brother , baby son , or lover he thought and now he was gone : Corbett looked down at the corpse and felt the futility of the death . |
| 26 | Corbett looked down at the fearful remains of a young man who , the last time they had met , had been a vigorous young soldier interested in clearing his own name . |
| 27 | Dora looked up from her chair and caught her eye . |
| 28 | Rex looked around at the jaded office . |
| 29 | Rex looked up in no small surprise . |
| 30 | Bert looked up from his Star . |