Example sentences of "as [pron] looked at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My blood froze as I looked at the prices . |
| 2 | Now as I looked at the tree I saw that the great things had been there all the time but I had mistaken them for the background . |
| 3 | As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village . |
| 4 | It 's added a certain anticipation as well to the placement job I 've been doing — ‘ Oh come on someone must have something to say ’ was a regular feeling/thought as I looked at the monitor in anticipation . |
| 5 | Something clicked as I looked at the number . |
| 6 | It was warm inside the building as I looked at the uniforms from Algeria , Morocco and Tonkin . |
| 7 | Paul was trying to catch fish in a pool as I looked at the thing . |
| 8 | All the women exclaimed at the sight of the red , pink and white azaleas massed on the steps , but each thought privately that only she could appreciate the true beauty and significance of the flowers — Sophia feeling that here was the essence of the Italy she knew and loved , Penelope experiencing a lift of the heart as if the flowers held a promise of future romantic adventures , Ianthe knowing as she looked at the flower what she had only suspected before — that she was in love with John . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't know if it will do any good , ’ she said as she looked at the medicine , ‘ but it might . |
| 10 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 11 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 12 | ‘ As we looked at the range of products available , we saw that FCRS offered us the most flexible route as the basic packaged solution that could be easily maintained . ’ |
| 13 | cos okay you wo n't believe he got several of those questions wrong as , you know , as we looked at the end of last night 's , you ca n't believe |
| 14 | The marketing team of the DIY company would probably discuss some of the following questions as they looked at the bar charts : |
| 15 | Huy asked him , as they looked at the rock . |
| 16 | Fred sighed to himself as he looked at the rest of the meat lying on the chopping block and at the pile of dough still to be rolled out . |
| 17 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 18 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 19 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 20 | The offices faced out on to the wolf enclosure and as he looked at the pack huddled by the iron fence in the snow he thought how right they looked for once . |
| 21 | Three rows in front of Aldrich , on his left-hand side as he looked at the backs of their heads , sat Howard and Shirley Brown . |
| 22 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 23 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |