Example sentences of "[noun pl] and looked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wiped the sweat from his eyes and looked down at the automatic in his hand . |
| 2 | The priest rested his elbows on his knees and looked down at the floor . |
| 3 | She put on her own sunglasses and looked out across the worn pitch . |
| 4 | However , ’ he stamped his feet and looked up at the darkened mass of the church , ‘ no one , not even in Southwark , can be that degenerate . |
| 5 | The coroner stamped his feet and looked up at the star-filled sky . |
| 6 | The lassitude still on her , she came slowly to her feet and looked down at the boy , who stood up , shifting uneasily . |
| 7 | Fulke shuffled his feet and looked down at the floor . |
| 8 | Edward took off his shoes and looked out of the window . |
| 9 | He sucked in deep , racking breaths and looked up at the two men . |
| 10 | Polly felt a blush warm her cheeks and looked down at the food . |
| 11 | She moved to the head of the stairs and looked down into the hallway , listening to his footsteps approaching the front door . |
| 12 | The field was surrounded by trees and looked out towards the river upstream from the loch . |
| 13 | He forced open his windows and looked out over the courtyard , over the town to where what he now knew as Skiddaw stood in dusky largeness , a prehistoric beast couchant . |
| 14 | Getting out of bed , Rachel flung open the curtains and looked out at the September morning . |
| 15 | The children read , played games and looked out of the window ; they complained about the hardness of the seats and squabbled . |
| 16 | The little ledge on the vertical edge was in the shade and we sat and sucked sweets and looked back down the sweeping ridge to where we 'd started , hours ago . |
| 17 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 18 | The Wisharts read the remaining news in their papers and looked out of the window , the old lady was still silent and motionless . |
| 19 | He lifted back the drapes and looked out into the road . |
| 20 | She rode furiously to the asylum grounds and looked up at the tree where the leaves had run riot in late summer . |