Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] 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 | Her cheeks were rosy from the exercise ; with her pointed features and sparkling eyes she looked like an amiable , wholesome witch . |
| 14 | On Tuesdays and Thursdays she looked after Patrick Robinson , the son of an American oil executive , work which she ‘ adored ’ . |
| 15 | To cover her confusion she looked beyond him into the street . |
| 16 | Forgetting her doubts she looked at her protector , but her wordless appeal was lost on him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | On one side we looked into a vast ravine . |
| 20 | Things get even worse using the simpler network benchmarks found in both the Norton and PC Tools 8 Sys Info programs : the Kamco lagged even further behind the other two servers we looked at . |
| 21 | This being the early days of punk we looked like complete urchins . |
| 22 | Refer back to the version of the quantity equation we looked at in Chapter 13 ( page 536 ) . |
| 23 | and there were three aspects we looked at I wonder why it was three ? |
| 24 | In the last chapter we looked at some of the effects on people of knowing that a death is likely to occur and some of the anticipated grief reactions that can be recognized . |
| 25 | In the first chapter we looked at notions of timely and untimely grief and we saw that although the reaction to loss is the same whether or not we are expecting someone to die , the way it will be expressed does very much depend on whether it is something we might expect . |
| 26 | In the previous chapter we looked at crime and criminality in a very broad and general manner . |
| 27 | In the last chapter we looked at how the social institution of marriage has changed at different times in history . |
| 28 | They were as much part of the Anglo-Protestant establishment as the clients they looked after . |
| 29 | After the First World War some Kerries were exported to France to help repopulate areas which had been decimated by war and the small black cattle were given prime grazing in orchard meadows near the River Somme ; within nine months they looked like beef animals ! |
| 30 | I had a chillingly clear picture of its abominable face : it had so many wrinkles and boils it looked as if it had lived for centuries . |