Example sentences of "[vb past] look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried looking out of the window to the hospital 's green lawns and the tall eucalypts that stood motionless against a gloriously blue August sky , but found that looking away seemed too impolite . |
| 2 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 3 | ‘ Although Tara never is really dark , ’ said Caspar as they stopped to look back at the great shining edifice outlined against the sky . |
| 4 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 5 | After that I avoided looking down towards the woodpile until , when it was almost too dark to see , I glanced down one last time — and she was gone . |
| 6 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 7 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 8 | Alexei seemed to look down at the folder in his hand . |
| 9 | The final example is perhaps an unexpected mathematical experience as there is no discussion of the tower itself but rather the child has been carried to the top of the high tower in his imagination and asked to look down at the people below . |
| 10 | ‘ I came to ask you to supper , ’ she babbled looking back into the drawing room . |
| 11 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 12 | They turned to look up at the hastily nailed boards that had replaced the shattered windows . |
| 13 | To harmonize my body language with Alison 's , I turned to look out of the window . |
| 14 | He turned to look out of the window . |
| 15 | She turned to look out over the battlements again and raised her voice just as the sun broke through . |
| 16 | Fei Yen reined in her horse and turned to look back down the steep slope beneath the beacon . |
| 17 | All turned to look back at the door as the footsteps approached on the flagstones . |
| 18 | He covered seventy yards to gain the partial cover of the shrubbery , flung himself amongst the undergrowth , and turned to look back at the chateau . |
| 19 | They turned to look back at the emptiness they had crossed . |
| 20 | The leaves on the thorn trees were almost open , and when we turned to look back at the distance we 'd climbed , there were clusters of vivid green that trailed down the hillside and encompassed the village like waterweed . |
| 21 | I turned to look back at the softly gleaming , parallel surfaces converging towards an oblong of dimly lit structures , an oblong much taller and narrower than any doorway . |
| 22 | Involuntarily Wycliffe turned to look back at the house on stilts , but it was hidden by a bulge in the slope of the hill … |
| 23 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 24 | Graham grinned looking over at the two Art School girls , who were now sitting on the floor on the other side of the room , talking to each other . |
| 25 | They talked for a while longer before Coffin put down the receiver and returned to look out of the window . |
| 26 | It was at about this time that Charles acquired a tutor and through him began to look out on the world through a learned man 's eyes . |
| 27 | And , as the second and third generation of Arab-Americans began to look back across the Atlantic , they were joined by a new wave of immigrants from the Middle East , many of them Lebanese , Palestinians and Iraqis displaced by the political upheavals in the region . |
| 28 | In splinters of thought , unconnectedly , I began to look back over the past three weeks . |
| 29 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 30 | These attitudes included looking down on the pursuit of trade and commerce as somewhat inferior socially . |