Example sentences of "and looked [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | She helped the younger woman to the kitchen , put her on a chair and looked round for the kettle . |
2 | Cissy Salt , her baby face hard and cold as a coin , stood back from the couch and looked round at the trembling tearful group . |
3 | The man kicked the dog into a corner and looked round at the signs of battle . |
4 | She paused outside the villa , and looked round at the dark hills against the starry sky . |
5 | I think that if Jesus stood in your school and looked around at the crowds he would feel exactly the same . |
6 | She tossed her head and looked around at the congregation . |
7 | He put down his pocket Bible and looked around with a certain grim satisfaction . |
8 | Ruth surveyed the freshly-turned earth and looked around for a flower she could place on the grave , but it was the last day of December and there was nothing in bloom . |
9 | Kenne gulped , and looked around for a way out . |
10 | The night was cold and black but when he stopped and looked up between the black overhanging gables of the houses , he was pleased to see the clouds beginning to break up . |
11 | Then he added , ‘ I did n't think they would , ’ and looked up into the muzzle of his own pistol held steady in the President 's hand . |
12 | ‘ Oh , I 'm sorry ! ’ she gasped , as she righted herself and looked up into the victim 's face . |
13 | He sat down in the deck chair , loosened his collar and tie , then lay back and looked up into the dark coolness of the oak branches . |
14 | She collapsed on the floor , among all the rubbish , laughed herself out to silence , and looked up into the attic , to see the torchlight shining there . |
15 | He turned and looked up into the scaly horse face above him . |
16 | He was well on his way to the station when he paused and looked up towards a building , and he saw in his mind 's eye Carrie running up the steps , and he recalled her voice saying , ‘ Oh ! why must you keep on about that . ’ |
17 | He stepped away from the letter box and looked up towards the window . |
18 | She lay on the grass , beside him , and looked up at the blue sky . |
19 | I moved closer to the entrance to the trench , pushed aside one of the heavy pieces of wood , and looked up at the sky . |
20 | Sister Cooney smiled and looked up at the board in front of her as the bell rang . |
21 | He began to tremble as he stepped through the door and looked up at the dim stairway which climbed steeply out of the bare and musty hall . |
22 | He coughed and cleared his throat again and looked up at the clerk . |
23 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
24 | She paused at the bottom of the wide stone staircase and looked up at the heavy doors of the church which had been drawn back and allowed a partial view of the dark interior of the building . |
25 | I then vomited , lay still for some seconds to recover from my disorientation and looked up at the officer , standing nonchalantly with hands clasped behind his back . |
26 | Later , in sleeping-bags , with Grégoire quiet and breathing peacefully , Edouard lay on his back , and looked up at the stars . |
27 | She sat carefully in a bucket chair , on a dark-blue satin cushion embroidered with a yellow dragon , and looked up at the mantelpiece . |
28 | She lay in Charlotte 's bed and looked up at the ceiling that Charlotte had festooned with shawls and old curtains and Indian bedspreads ( there was a definite small weight in one of those hammocks : what lay there ? |
29 | Florrie took a pinch of snuff and looked up at the sky , waiting for the inevitable sneeze , and Aggie stepped back a pace . |
30 | She slowed down and looked up at the house now looming high above them . |