Possible Clues:

• It looked hard for the famous one to get to the editor
• Looked hard and fixedly
• Didn’t blink
• Gazed intently at
• Looked steadily
• It looked hard for the saint to be so revolutionary
• Looked at a light to the east. Day was here
• Second last to pot, a snooker ball looked hard
• Looked long and hard at
• Looked terribly dear after the last 50 per cent reduction