Example sentences of "[noun] and looked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had once been the master bedroom and looked out on the woods to the east . |
| 2 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 3 | He limped to the side of the roof and looked down into the yard . |
| 4 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
| 5 | A short time later Betty stopped her scrubbing and looked out of the kitchen window . |
| 6 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 7 | Phyllis stood by the fence and looked down to the lines at the bottom . |
| 8 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 9 | Bob drew the curtain to one side and looked out of the window . |
| 10 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 11 | Charles raised his head above the line of the rock and looked down towards the hut . |
| 12 | His voice trailed off and Ruth looked sharply at him as he lowered his gaze and looked down at the paperwork in front of him . |
| 13 | Hercule Poirot sat on the white sand and looked out across the sparkling blue water . |
| 14 | Ian walked to the open window and looked up at the hills , with their barracks , prison and asylum perched aloft . |
| 15 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the courtyard below , busy with ambulances and patients clutching appointment cards as they peered hesitatingly at signs pointing the way to Casualty and X-ray and Outpatients , with the birdlike figures of caped nurses changing shifts , and the white coats of housemen hustling importantly from ward block to ward block . |
| 16 | I got out of bed , went across to the window and looked out at the night . |
| 17 | When he had finished , Bicker strode to the window and looked out at the tumbled clouds of the late day and the gathering darkness of the deserted hills . |
| 18 | I went to the window and looked out at the rain and the clouds . |
| 19 | He walked over to the window and looked out at the falling snow . |
| 20 | She walked to the window and looked out into the dull afternoon light . |
| 21 | Forester had moved to the window and looked out into the yard where the two long-wheelbase Land Rovers stood side by side , somehow managing to be tough and elegant at the same time in their rough-country rig with full-length roof racks and mounted searchlights . |
| 22 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 23 | She stood up , stretched , then moved to the window and looked out over the busy concourse . |
| 24 | I stood at the window and looked down into the street . |
| 25 | He went to the window and looked down into the street . |
| 26 | Mum went over to my window and looked down at the street . |
| 27 | I lay on my bed with a computer magazine and , from time to time , went to the window and looked down at the darkened street . |
| 28 | He stood at a window and looked down over the trees , where rooks were crossing sticks in a light sway of air . |
| 29 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 30 | Cardiff ran to the glass doors , wiped the moisture from the pane and looked out into the night at the blurred orange glow of the traffic cordon — but could see nothing else . |