Example sentences of "he [vb past] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roman would be less likely to spot her now if he chanced to look round . |
| 2 | Bill 's voice gave nothing away but Kelly noticed that he avoided looking at her as he gave them their orders . |
| 3 | " Having fun ? " he asked looking down on her . |
| 4 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 5 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 6 | He tried to look apologetic , but it did n't work . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's because you 've let him get away , ’ Whitlock snarled but the policeman snapped at him to face the front when he tried to look round . |
| 8 | He tried to look full of rakish charm by pulling on a weak smile . |
| 9 | Edouard was on horseback ; he stopped to look at the child , who was about eight or nine years old , and exceptionally beautiful . |
| 10 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 11 | He stopped to look at the house and saw below it , on the shore , a large rectangular basin which seemed to have been blasted out of the rock at the foot of the cliff . |
| 12 | Sometimes , when he went for a walk , she followed him ; if he stopped to look at something she stopped too and when he walked fast , she walked fast to keep up with him . |
| 13 | After discussion with the therapist , Tony agreed to start searching for another job more systematically ; he proposed to look at the local newspapers twice a week for possible job vacancies . |
| 14 | He promised to look into my complaint and ceremoniously restored my defaced season ticket with a rubber . |
| 15 | In his first meeting with the TUC General Council in January 1942 , Beveridge rejected their suggestion for a retirement condition , saying ‘ I do not believe the old people leaving the labour market really create fresh employment ’ , but he promised to look further into the matter . |
| 16 | He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound . |
| 17 | He pretended to look chastened , and inspected the cut with great care . |
| 18 | Tremayne 's own mood appeared to be a deepening depression over the evening 's finale , and I was sorry because he deserved to look back with enjoyment . |
| 19 | Yes , aha , my granny too , spoke about that this lad he 'd to look after them . |
| 20 | He 'd looked forward to being interviewed on a subject of some importance to him . |
| 21 | Instead , he 'd looked shocked and utterly horrified at seeing me still alive . |
| 22 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 23 | Even before the film had wound on , he 'd looked down and away , so that I could see only his forehead and his grey hair ; and within two seconds , he 'd walked towards the grandstand and out of my line of vision . |
| 24 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 25 | He 'd looked ashamed then , and mumbled about being sorry . |
| 26 | He 'd looked up at the great thing dropping out of the sky right towards his head , and had flung himself down , expecting at any second to become just a little greasy mark in a great big hole . |
| 27 | Klein advanced Gentle five hundred pounds to pay the rent on the studio , and left him to it , remarking only that Gentle was looking a good deal better than he 'd looked previously , though he smelt a good deal worse . |
| 28 | A little later , he 'd looked down avenues of faces , hoping it might be Helen . |
| 29 | The boy 's eyes had met his own , and for a moment Pavel had been afraid ; but the boy had n't said anything , and after a moment he 'd looked away . |
| 30 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |