Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] looked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 2 | No , the next bit I looked over me bit and you were parked up alongside me , why ? |
| 3 | ‘ One Sierra I looked at had done 112,000 miles but the dealer could n't tell me whether it had been once or twice around the clock . ’ |
| 4 | Returning through Brotton I looked across the valley and wondered why a huge Union Jack was flying half-mast on the top of the Zetland Hotel at Saltburn . |
| 5 | I used to love driving that around , it was that long , me sat behind the wheel I looked like a dot in that ! |
| 6 | For six months I looked after a valiant clerical worker with cancer of the colon , which had spread to her liver before her condition was diagnosed . |
| 7 | No attempt is made in any of the books I looked at to integrate girls into the world of engineering or technology . |
| 8 | As we got into the car I looked at Eva and she smiled at me . |
| 9 | In the camp canteen I looked for the woman who had encouraged me to come to what , by the minute , I was beginning to feel was a god-forsaken hole . |
| 10 | In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years ! |
| 11 | I was 5ft 8 inches , 36–22–36 , with a new perm and a borrowed swimsuit and high heels ; to a blind man on a galloping horse I looked like a professional beauty queen . |
| 12 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 13 | And carrots which looked like impacted wisdom teeth crossed with a fantasy of Edgar Allan Poe 's . |
| 14 | After last season 's floppy-hatted waifs , this time around models were given hair styles which looked like a punk reworking of a clipped poodle ; make-up featured a spatter of sequin shapes glued on around the eyes . |
| 15 | Arms threw dirt aside , stiffly pulling torsos out of the earth , shoulders shovelling the dirt aside to allow heads to rise and turn uncertainly , glancing about blankly through bulging eyes which looked at everything and saw nothing . |
| 16 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |
| 17 | Another study which looked at men whose wives had died of cancer of the cervix has shown that there is a much higher incidence of cervical cancer among their second wives than would be expected by chance . |
| 18 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 19 | Hough and Mayhew ( 1988 ) regard these figures as underestimates and Worrall and Pease ‘ s ( 1986 ) re-analysis of the BCS data which looked at all crimes , and attempted crimes , involving contact and where the victim could identify whether or not they knew the offender , found that women were much more likely to say that they knew the offender well and that the offender was a spouse in nearly 40 per cent of cases . |
| 20 | Sure enough , it had four processes around the mouth which looked like antennae . |
| 21 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 22 | On Tuesdays and Thursdays she looked after Patrick Robinson , the son of an American oil executive , work which she ‘ adored ’ . |
| 23 | To cover her confusion she looked beyond him into the street . |
| 24 | There was also an infermiere , a male nurse , named Luigi who looked like a retired boxer . |
| 25 | Forgetting her doubts she looked at her protector , but her wordless appeal was lost on him . |
| 26 | A couple of lads who looked as if they were moonlighting from a Youth Training Scheme were trying to reglaze the window from the inside , underneath the plastic so their haircuts did n't get damp . |
| 27 | She walked into Cotherstone at seven o clock every morning to keep house for the ‘ Bothy Boys , the lads who looked after the hounds . |
| 28 | In 1714 , the laird of Gleneagles solicited the post of bailie of the regality of Lennox for his son James Haldane , an advocate who ‘ not haveing reccommendation or interest enought to bring him quickly into business … thought this might contribute some thing to it ’ , but the Duke of Montrose kept such appointments firmly in the hands of Graham gentlemen who looked upon him as their chief . |
| 29 | And it is true what your father says … when I think of what it was like after the War , and when I look around now — ’ suiting her actions to her words she looked around the café , at the ladies , old and frail , like herself , respectable in black and grey — ‘ these went through it too , ’ she said , ‘ and look at them , at us , coffee and cake on a Sunday morning . |
| 30 | yeah , but when come , come on Saturday she looked in her ears cos Sharon said she had to go back with her , she says I wait do n't go ears are cleared |