Example sentences of "he looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
2 | ‘ He looked at me with one of those amiable stares of his , said I was overworked and I should take some time off . |
3 | He looked at me with confident contempt . |
4 | He looked at me with bright eyes , unperplexed . |
5 | He looked at me with yellow feral eyes . |
6 | And he looked at me with full concentration . |
7 | He looked at me with some care . |
8 | He looked at her through narrowed eyes , then he stood up . |
9 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
10 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
11 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
12 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
13 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
14 | He looked at her with hard eyes that seemed to see every thought she had ever had . |
15 | He looked at her with big , brown , sad eyes . |
16 | He looked at her with hunted eyes . |
17 | He looked at her with troubled eyes , but she could not know how much his answer was going to hurt . |
18 | He looked at her with slow deliberation , and she felt her breathing deepen . |
19 | He looked at her with those sensual eyes and she knew how Ma must have felt when she first met Pa . |
20 | He looked at her with those bleak eyes . |
21 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
22 | Then he brought his blazing eyes unhurriedly to her face and for a long moment she found herself wishing time would stand still ; when he looked at her like that … she swallowed , felt her pulse beating wildly ; his eyes were devouring hers . |
23 | Robyn was suddenly finding breathing quite a problem ; she was n't sure if she was anywhere near able to reply — not when he looked at her like that , not when his body was so close to hers . |
24 | She found it impossible to collect her thoughts when he looked at her like that . |
25 | ‘ I did n't mean we should get to know each other — ’ She broke off , not sure what she did mean when he looked at her in such open invitation . |
26 | He looked at her in apparent perplexity . |
27 | He looked at it with intense concentration for a few moments , then left the room . |
28 | A computer crystal had appeared in his hand , and he looked at it in mild bemusement , as if it were a fish , or a coloured party hat . |
29 | When we approached the 12 year-old 's little aluminium throne with its torn plastic seat and its bent wheels , he looked at us with that special insouciance of the Lebanese militiaman . |
30 | The boy amid the ruins could have been no more than 12 years old and he looked at us with genuine disinterest , sitting on a broken office swivel chair in the middle of rue Trablos , scruffy brown hair on top of a tired , old face . |