Example sentences of "[noun] i looked [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I walked across the car park I looked back at the police station and almost expected to see the figure of Inspector Drew looming at one of the windows as in an early Orson Welles film . |
| 2 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 3 | From the top of Flinter Gill I looked out to the Howgills and across to where cloud shadows were moving across Dentdale and over Rise Hill . |
| 4 | Rolling over on my back I looked up at him , panting , waiting till I had the wind to speak . |
| 5 | The next morning I looked out of the window of my warm bedroom into the backyard and saw a child enter the open gate from the garden , look cautiously round , lift the lid from an over-flowing garbage can and quickly and efficiently pick out the scraps of bread and other left-overs from our supper tables the previous night . |
| 6 | Next morning I looked in at the forge before leaving , and said goodbye to Joe , who was already hard at work . |
| 7 | When I nervously entered the breakfast-room I looked up at — a black column ! |
| 8 | While we was having our meal I looked out of the window and there was a fellow there — in the lay-by — sitting in a black car . |
| 9 | Past Bracken Hill beyond Out Brough I looked down at Bainbridge snoozing in the sun before dropping down the last half-mile to the green and the Post Office for something to still the dust . |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |