Example sentences of "looked [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wednesday looked suspiciously at the rope then seized hold of it with one hand . |
| 2 | The door opened as she was counting her change and he looked suspiciously at the coins in her palm . |
| 3 | The landlady looked suspiciously at the notes he proffered and asked if they were Belgian currency . |
| 4 | But Ruddock enjoyed his own share of good fortune later , escaping punishment for what looked suspiciously like an elbow in the face that flattened Ndlovu . |
| 5 | Mr Lin is popular enough , but the choice of Mr Chiang , another son of Chiang Kai-shek , looked suspiciously like an attempt to renew the Chiang dynasty . |
| 6 | Then he looked suspiciously around the car . |
| 7 | But because of the height they looked right over the roof of the main building of Anpetuwi Lodge . |
| 8 | Ruth thought he looked rather like a baby monkey , but she assured Rosie that her son was the most handsome child she had ever seen . |
| 9 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 10 | With her veil pushed back and her black hood shading her face , she looked rather like a nun . |
| 11 | David was a war-leader of the Israelites ( who looked rather like the Franks to Charlemagne ) , but he was also the builder of the Jerusalem Temple . |
| 12 | He looked across the fire at Lennie 's anguished face , and then he looked ashamedly at the flames . |
| 13 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 14 | The sudden sound brought down the children and Hugh , who looked nervously at the Borzoi . |
| 15 | Mr Crumwallis jumped , and looked nervously at the instrument . |
| 16 | When Amaranth looked discreetly at the contents , there was much giggling . |
| 17 | With a wild surmise , 1 began to breed , generation after generation , from whichever child looked most like an insect . |
| 18 | The third was the youngest , square-set , and of the three , looked most like an actor dressed up in costume for a part . |
| 19 | Hope looked keenly at the man , held his gaze a moment — a glance which could have ruled a line straight from eye to eye — and then snapped to attention . |
| 20 | Hours before he died , the King wrote to the woman he looked on as a mother |
| 21 | You were the person they looked on as an authority and father figure , a trust you clearly betrayed . |
| 22 | It seemed curious to be describing such ice-cold seas while sitting in a palm-thatched Bahamian beach café that looked on to a shoreline where pelicans perched under the diamond-hard sun . |
| 23 | It looked on to a pool , one of several small pools created by the removal of clay for the reserve 's perimeter wall . |
| 24 | As he left the house Huy glanced around the square , and along the streets that led from it ; but there was no movement at any of the few windows which looked on to the street , and the handful of people about were all familiar to him . |
| 25 | Ratagan relieved her of one of them whilst she looked on with an eyebrow arched . |
| 26 | Charles looked on with an expression of distaste which Miles took for admiration . |
| 27 | Hockney has repaid the debt with numerous studies of Silver , two of which looked on among the gallery 's 100 Hockneys , ranging from a teenage pencil sketch to oils done last Christmas . |
| 28 | The Princess of Wales , her face almost lost beneath a huge black velvet hat , looked on from a balcony at the nearby Foreign Office where she stood silently with the Queen Mother and the Princess Royal . |
| 29 | Five London dealers plus Harrods , which plans a display next week , carried off nearly half the lots while Vietnam government officials , the vendors , looked on from the balcony . |
| 30 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |