Example sentences of "[pron] look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially when I look around at the bug-eyed gawkers staring , almost hypnotised , at the images . |
| 2 | As I look around at the happy faces it is difficult to realise that the German Army is only a few miles away across the River Seine where they are defending Le Havre . |
| 3 | If I look up to the blue sky , as yet I must when it is blue and bright suddenly , it is in spite of the heavy limb and relaxing back that will drag me down or cause me to hasten home . |
| 4 | I look out across the twinkling expanse of ocean , and decide to go and see Teddy . |
| 5 | ‘ If I look out of the right window . ’ |
| 6 | I look back at the old woman , marvelling at Enid and Philip for finding her interesting enough to talk about . |
| 7 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 8 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 9 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 10 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 11 | I looked round at the two dead Germans lying in the middle of the road . |
| 12 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 13 | I looked round for a living man to admire and follow . |
| 14 | I looked round for a split second . |
| 15 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 16 | Slowly I looked around at the other boys . |
| 17 | I looked around at the other passengers and tried to start a conversation . |
| 18 | As we journeyed back across the Orne bridges , I looked around at the happy faces in the truck ; up until now , there had n't been much to laugh about . |
| 19 | Gunga drove off over the bridge as I looked around for a suitable spot to get some practice in . |
| 20 | Oh I looked up about the last , the last essay I did cos it was about erm |
| 21 | I looked up at a sheer sheet of glass and steel , one of the 1930s Rockerfeller buildings . |
| 22 | I closed my eyes in reverence as I chewed then as I reached for the pint pot again I looked up at the small figure on the bin . |
| 23 | Then I looked up at the north-facing back of the house , at my own room . |
| 24 | I looked up at the French NCO , he steps forward and orders two Germans to pick up their Officer and the other two to pick up and carry the wounded Commando . |
| 25 | I looked up at the concrete-grey sky , still surprisingly free of graffiti . |
| 26 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 27 | I looked out over the empty white road to the sky and saw the morning sun sparkling . |
| 28 | Crossing the humpy floor , I looked out of a doorless doorway and saw , half hidden in the grass , the red tiles of the porch where the young Harvey-Beaumonts had sat , celebrating St George 's Day by tapping their feet to the brassy music of the band of the Black and Tans . |
| 29 | I looked out of the tiny window over her shoulder , willing myself to make it slow , to make it last . |
| 30 | I looked out of the wind-shaken carriage , where people were moaning and cursing and making vows to start going by bus , or take the car next time , or buy a car , or learn to drive … looked out through the rain-spattered sheets of glass , watching the cold January day leach out of the grey skies above the drenched city , and witnessed the rain fall upon the tramped-on , pissed-on , shat-on grass of the narrow path in the scrubby field with a feeling of wry but nevertheless wretched empathy . |