Example sentences of "[noun] and [adv] looked [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He opened up a 24.8 seconds advantage over Jackson at the half distance refuelling halt and never looked back on a course which measured just over 190 miles in length .
2 She was a docile creature and merely looked round at me as she cropped the grass ; and her eyes were no longer sunken but bright and full .
3 Harrison leapt up instantly to hold out his hand and immediately looked about for Mary and shook his head .
4 My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours — feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners ; like the Races , one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin .
5 As the mandroids calmly gassed the beaked exter and carted them both off to be flung into the street , I slid on to one of the unstained seats at the table and cheerfully looked around for a servaton .
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