Example sentences of "as [pers pn] looked [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 2 | ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers ! |
| 3 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 4 | Jenny told herself , as she looked through the fine big annual . |
| 5 | Venice was unique , unforgettable , breathtaking in all its various moods , Luce thought as she looked over the calm water to the pale marble buildings lining the banks . |
| 6 | ‘ Delicious , ’ Clare said feebly as she looked into the smiling face and aquamarine eyes of her son . |
| 7 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 8 | As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’ |
| 9 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |
| 10 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 11 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 12 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 13 | As she looked at the soft golden panelling , more of which emerged every day , the pleasure of her victory washed over Sara anew . |
| 14 | ‘ I fully expected to see a hangar out there and there was n't one ’ , lamented Kermit as we looked through the many pictures he had brought with him to the Reno Air Races . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm afraid stocks are still pathetically low , ’ Louise said as they looked at the half dozen dresses that were the only ones the assistant had in Constance 's size . |
| 16 | Klift spoke for all of them as they looked around the sloping entranceway . |
| 17 | Rain swilled and foamed in its open mouth as it looked at the churning black clouds and the eruptions of fractured lightning . |
| 18 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 19 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 20 | ‘ You 're proud of it , are n't you , Aged ? ’ said Wemmick , his face losing all its usual hardness as he looked at the old man . |
| 21 | He was trying to joke but he was unable to smile as he looked at the old cow . |
| 22 | Now , as he looked at the old woman , his expression became soft , almost tender . |
| 23 | Finn stood there helplessly for a moment , his own breath coming in gasps as he looked into the wild eyes of his superior . |
| 24 | He too , was proud and as he looked round the crowded pews of St Christopher 's in Englefield , New Jersey , he thought of what a good turn-out it was considering that so many of them had come up from New York . |