Example sentences of "look [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The laibon simply looks down at the floor of the boma . |
| 2 | He looks down at the fag packet and taps it round another couple of revolutions on the table . |
| 3 | He looks down at the table , smiling , and draws a face by running his finger through a ring of beer . |
| 4 | Rather it looks down at the scarred and broken Christ figure as if to say , ‘ Why ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | These wide , panoramic views are usually extremely compatible , as Natassa combines views of two of the Tyne Bridges in one double shot ; looks down at the field pattern provided by the flagstones at the corner of the street ; looks back on-shore , from the water 's edge ; or concentres on old rotting timbers out to sea . |
| 7 | She must have looked down at the dog , and seen the blood stain and the tear on his trouser . |
| 8 | And , not quite sure how to take that , Ellie hastily looked down at the quilt the woman was folding . |
| 9 | Noreen suddenly looked up at the Italian woman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 12 | Well , only the once , when Steven Blowers had died and he had looked up at the parents , and then a curious bleakness had stolen over his face and drained the life away . |
| 13 | One looks up at the cheery advertisement that reads ‘ Lonely ? |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Thus it is Pippin who looks up at the sun and the banners and offers comfort to Beregond , and Merry who never loses heart when even Théoden appears prey to ‘ horror and doubt ’ . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And of course , ’ adds Myra , as she looks up at the lights on the hills where the Bakers live , ‘ Howard and Felicity . ’ |
| 18 | They are sitting by the eye of the stream where it looks up at the sun before it weeps down the mountainside . |
| 19 | Mark looks up at the sky . |
| 20 | He looks up at the class . |
| 21 | John looks up at the cop 's face . |
| 22 | John looks up at the grey eyes so far away . |
| 23 | As the Docklands beer festival fades from view , Martyn Cornell looks back at the sad demise of brewing in the Cockney heartland |
| 24 | The master raconteur looks back at the many amusing moments of his 47-year career at the BBC . |
| 25 | If one looks back at the text-books and review papers written about psychobiology during t , his period one finds that they were largely preoccupied with topics like motivation and emotion . |
| 26 | Across the waters , the magnificent Peter and Paul Fortress looks back at the shoreline . |
| 27 | Barbara Buhler looks back at the effect of criticism on Georgia O'Keeffe 's art in the 1920s |
| 28 | Our political correspondent , Fiona Ross looks back at the career of Jo Grimond . |
| 29 | In the first of a three part series , Erika Barnes looks back at the life of the plane affectionately known as Fat Albert . |
| 30 | Minutes from the centre of Sant' Agata it looks out at the Bay of Naples and onwards to Mount Vesuvius . |