Example sentences of "she look [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 She looks up into the sky in the direction of Ol Doinyo Lengai .
2 She looks up at the grey clouds scudding across the sky , down at a vista of narrow back gardens , some neat and trim with goldfish ponds and brightly painted play equipment , others tatty and neglected , cluttered with broken appliances and discarded furniture .
3 Here the Harper clan gather , a small tribe , frail , ageing , on the threshold of 1980 , in the presence of the sky : here thirteen-year-old Celia , young , aspiring , judgemental , reflects upon the past , as , long after her usual bedtime , she looks up at the stars and plots her own future .
4 And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’
5 She looks out over the back gardens of John 's quiet neighbours .
6 She looks down at the figure slumped in the chair , sees the skull under the frail skin which hangs loosely from the bone , at once tight and yet with too much of it , the bony fingers picking at the fringes of the rug .
7 Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony .
8 She looked round for the entrance .
9 She looked round at the cuttings strewn on the floor and then back at the blank screen .
10 She looked round at the others , spitting dust from their mouths , coughing , shaking with cold .
11 Quickly introducing herself to the sister-in-charge , she looked around for the nearest unattended patient .
12 Then she looked around at the men on offer , braying nightclub fools mostly , and decided that , even without racing commitments and pain , she would be planning to leave early .
13 She looked around at the bare , cheerless workshop , at the roughly made counter and the cold bare flags of the floor and shivered , what a place to have to work , even in her own reduced circumstances she was so much better placed than Hari Morgan .
14 As Donna climbed the stairs slowly she looked around at the dozens of people entering and leaving the building , wondering how the hell she was supposed to find someone she 'd never seen before .
15 She looked around at the fields .
16 She looked around at the other people in the water , and when she saw Matthew , brown and sinewy , poised on the board for a swift controlled racing dive , she admitted to herself that it was him she was searching for .
17 She looked around in the light of the headlamps .
18 She looked around in the hope of recognising some landmarks .
19 As she looked up into the spotlight and the rope ladder unfurled she thought the Chinooks had come for her .
20 She felt a hand on her shoulder and she looked up into the thin face of Edward Morris .
21 Relief and anger swept through her as she looked up into the familiar dark , scowling face .
22 Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion .
23 She looked up into the haughty face but he said nothing at all .
24 She looked up into the gilt-edged mirror above the basin and cursed silently .
25 She looked up into the smashed glass of the windscreen , something was trapped under the wiper blade .
26 She looked up at the curved glass roof overhead , so high and with pigeons on the inside , fluttering amongst the iron girders , trapped inside .
27 She looked up at the advertisements above the windows .
28 She looked up at the clear sky .
29 She looked up at the six solid feet of him , at the huge , deep chest under his black shirt , at his bulging arm muscles .
30 Doyle dreaded to think of how many mistakes were appearing on the court transcript , each time she looked up at the corner of the room , where the CI5 men sat , and found two youthful , smiling faces , fixing her with meaningful looks .
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