Example sentences of "he looked at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at the hillside across the river , where the moving masses had halted , still just out of range even for the most expert , to redress their line . |
| 2 | He looked at the soles of the feet , making careful note of what he saw . |
| 3 | He looked at the boy . |
| 4 | He looked at the plan for the pheasant trap . |
| 5 | He looked at the expanse of the river . |
| 6 | He looked at the puzzlement on my face and the blank unemotion of Hatchard . |
| 7 | To test his theory he looked at the processes responsible for producing monstrosities , because these provided the closest observable parallel to the saltative transmutations demanded by his theory . |
| 8 | " We 've been at it — He looked at the watch on his sinewy wrist with its furring of black hair " — like nine hours . |
| 9 | He looked at the watch that Pooley had provided . |
| 10 | Again he looked at the telephone and lit the flame of the lighter . |
| 11 | He looked at the trooper . |
| 12 | He looked at the cargo drones stowed away in their kennels , inspected the air and power connections , the airlocks either end , the internal controls for the doors and the roof . |
| 13 | Cardinal Hume is 70 years old , but in that programme he looked at the vocation to the religious life with all the zest of youth . |
| 14 | He looked at the jury , and smiled . |
| 15 | Then he looked at the jury , and said very loudly : ‘ Sarah did not buy the toothpaste . |
| 16 | He looked at the jury . |
| 17 | He looked at the policewoman . |
| 18 | He looked at the floor . |
| 19 | He looked at the bubbles intently : they could be frogspawn or snow just fallen , or clouds , or millions of tiny crystals , almost invisible . |
| 20 | He looked at the blackboard once again . |
| 21 | He looked at the woodcuts , which were described on the title page as ‘ Illustrations by B.G. ’ A female figure with a scarfed head , flying apron and great wooden shoes , standing in a clearing surrounded by dark pine trees full of white eyes among their crossing arms of needles . |
| 22 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 23 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 24 | He looked at the furnishings , the pictures , the bed with its rich crimson bedspread . |
| 25 | Then he looked at the Curator , straight into his eyes to make him understand that the person he was thinking of was himself . |
| 26 | He looked at the basket in surprise . |
| 27 | When he had finished the second slice , he looked at the Trunchbull , hesitating . |
| 28 | He looked at the ormolu clock behind her . |
| 29 | Sometimes he looked at the clouds and wondered what percentage ashes they were . |
| 30 | He looked at the judge . |