Example sentences of "[conj] looked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Artists know that this has happened , but much of the art establishment has n't caught up with events , or looked back at the past in the light of that . |
| 2 | In the fire-comer stood a black-and-white goat , with knobby little horns and eyes like yellow glass , and on the hearth lay a very large cat , a multi-coloured , mazy-patterned brindled cat , that looked up at the little tailor with eyes like cold green jewels , with black slits for pupils . |
| 3 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 4 | He had to move slowly , carefully on the stairs because , for a brief moment , he was in full sight of the soldiers through the big plate glass window that looked out onto the narrow quay . |
| 5 | So he started work in the office and showroom , a long narrow room on the first floor with windows that looked out onto the street , with shelves filled with lines of business machines , computers , word processors , the screens flickering as Lewis , Barnett 's other assistant , experimented with them . |
| 6 | The track had , he recalled , two branches , separating as it dropped from the heathy ridge that looked down upon the river . |
| 7 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
| 8 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 9 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
| 10 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
| 11 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
| 12 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
| 13 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
| 14 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
| 16 | He sat down in the deck chair , loosened his collar and tie , then lay back and looked up into the dark coolness of the oak branches . |
| 17 | She collapsed on the floor , among all the rubbish , laughed herself out to silence , and looked up into the attic , to see the torchlight shining there . |
| 18 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
| 19 | He stepped away from the letter box and looked up towards the window . |
| 20 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
| 21 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
| 22 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
| 23 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
| 24 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
| 25 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 26 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
| 27 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
| 28 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
| 29 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
| 30 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |