Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaning out of it the figure of Charlie Chaplin waved to anyone who cared to look up , frozen forever in that pose . |
| 2 | She woke in the half-gloom of early morning to find her body slicked with sweat and all the bedclothes flung off , her nightdress in such a tangle that the soft creamy skin of her thighs was exposed to anyone who cared to look . |
| 3 | They were homosexuals , although their little house at Cosham was very respectable , with separate bedrooms visible to anybody who cared to look . |
| 4 | From the outset he had decided that he did not much care for the tall fair youth who seemed to look down his long nose at everything . |
| 5 | Later we went into the darkness of the Santuario ; there was no one there but the Madonna , who seemed to look down benignly on us as for centuries she had looked on friend and enemy alike . |
| 6 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 7 | He noted given unto a Newlands man who came to look at the supposed Wad Mine at Conistone 5s . " |
| 8 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |
| 9 | Oddly enough , one of Pierre Salinger 's researchers , Linda Mack , while trying to check me out , had talked to another of their staffers , David Mills — the former Newsweek photographer who 'd looked me up on Cyprus in 1987 and sold some pictures to Hurley . |
| 10 | I asked the mechanic , Ian , who 'd looked after the David and Elizabeth King , if he 'd regret seeing her go ? |
| 11 | It was an emotional parting , not only for the children , but also for the English volunteers who 'd looked after them . |
| 12 | It was an emotional parting , not only for the children , but also for the English volunteers who 'd looked after them . |
| 13 | Benstede , who returned looking untidy with streaks of dirt on his face , muttered that he had been manhandled , probably by the French , and was intent on leaving as soon as possible . |
| 14 | If the view through Williams ' window of history did not please everyone , it at least appears to have pleased many , especially those Negroes from the lower classes , and in particular Creole woman , who began to look upon him as some kind of messiah . |
| 15 | One with a job during the day , who enjoyed looking after her small domain , and who did not demand too much attention from her landlady . |
| 16 | In her eyes he was a sad , lonely man who needed looking after . |
| 17 | CLUB SURFACES LTD ( ) were early pioneers who started looking at ways of developing non-turf pitches back in 1976 . |
| 18 | The same could be said of Miller , Golding and D.C. Finch , who contrived to look more like miscellaneous employees of the undertaker than police officers , let alone friends of the deceased . |
| 19 | The dealer got more and more paranoid sitting there , noticing these two guys in the corner who kept looking at a bit of paper then at him , then having a bit of a conflab . |
| 20 | ‘ We do n't want anything thank you , fatty , ’ said one girl to Joy , who did look slightly obese in her pink striped apron and cream tights . |
| 21 | Not far behind them sat David Thomas and his wife , a jeweller who had looked after the Spencer family for years and sold Diana several pieces : but he was still ‘ just a humble jeweller ’ , and was expecting to be tucked away behind a pillar at the back . |
| 22 | It was Harriet Shakespeare who had looked like that . |
| 23 | Nobody who had looked at the bald bullet-head and roly-poly self-confidence of the visitor , or heard his folksy repartee , could fail to have been reminded of an American grass roots politician on tour . |
| 24 | The result upset opinion polls , which had predicted that Mr Kinnock — who had looked increasingly confident — was on the verge of ending Labour 's 13 years in opposition and avenging three defeats by Mrs Thatcher . |
| 25 | His mother could not be traced , but the tiny corpse was recognised by a lady who had looked after him for some time , before she , as many others , had done before her , had innocently replied to Mrs Dyer 's advertisement , disguised by the nom de plume Mrs Thomas . |
| 26 | The white frilly aprons and mob caps clearly labelled those who had elected to become servants for the afternoon ; less easily identifiable were the spiv I 'd spotted earlier — with his slicked-back , Brylcreemed hair and sneer of a moustache — and the vampish creature dressed in black taffeta adorned with diamanté who had looked me up and down disdainfully . |
| 27 | Sour old Mr Piggott , who had looked in at St Andrew 's , let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings , and emerging from the vestry door , crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings . |
| 28 | The first interrogator was not the officer who had looked in the day before but a wizened little old man who seemed half afraid of me . |
| 29 | A couple who had looked after an elderly father in their home for many years , were persuaded at last to take one week 's holiday . |
| 30 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |