Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] look [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For allowing ourselves to look at the report and find the actions , and not just the actions themselves . |
| 2 | He found himself looking towards the floor but could see nothing , and so shook his head . |
| 3 | Delaney found himself looking at a cargo vessel with a very high superstructure three-quarters aft . |
| 4 | Peter opened one at random and found himself looking at a photograph of Kate . |
| 5 | Huy found himself looking at the man 's lips alone , and the spittle switching from one to the other , in horrified fascination and to the exclusion of everything else . |
| 6 | Rincewind made the mistake of glancing downwards , and found himself looking through the dragon to the treetops below . |
| 7 | As he handed the child to his mother , the little mouth opened in a yawn and George found himself looking into a pair of slate blue eyes . |
| 8 | When her lashes lifted she found herself looking at a name . |
| 9 | Drawing it out , she found herself looking at a face which was striking both for its good looks and its expression of surprise . |
| 10 | ‘ Let me take that , ’ said a male voice and turning she found herself looking into a pair of startlingly blue eyes . |
| 11 | Lowering her head , Loretta stepped through the narrow gap , and found herself looking from the shadow of the gateway across a carefully tended lawn to the far side of the college . |
| 12 | Then before she resumed her snail-slow progress back to bed she steeled herself to look in the mirror above the washbasin . |
| 13 | Typically , Simple Men hardly strains itself looking for an audience . |
| 14 | Samuel Butler offers his readers a helpful hint : ‘ to know whether you are enjoying a piece of music or not , you must see whether you find yourself looking at the advertisement of Pears soap at the end of the programme ’ . |
| 15 | Francis forced himself to look at the screens again , and he could see that there were less of the winged creatures flitting among the struts and cables . |
| 16 | First , it 's hard to stop oneself looking at the scene , it 's so fascinating . |
| 17 | Jackson tried to make himself look like a man again . |
| 18 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |