Example sentences of "[noun prp] looking [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not here to see his beloved Veronica looking more beautiful than any Botticelli nymph . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 3 | Rosemary later confessed to Leith that seeing Travis looking so haggard had really got to her . |
| 4 | Lots of them came rushing over to me and started stroking my face and wetting my brow and making a sort of wailing noise , and then three of them turned on Matt looking really nasty . |
| 5 | The headmaster stood at the front of the class with Jim looking rather embarrassed and announced , |
| 6 | The generation which designed cantilevered structures for Jane Russell , had Marilyn looking permanently over-ripe and arranged a sexual encounter between Jane Fonda and machinery , has given way to a society which is hooked on fitness . |
| 7 | The ineffectiveness of both Emburey and Tufnell has been one of the tour 's major shocks and together with Philip DeFreitas 's injury has left England looking somewhat toothless . |
| 8 | William was next and jumped feet first , so he does a flip half way down ; and Matthew looking distinctly queasy on the platform but not wanting to back out after the others had already done it ! |
| 9 | Beneath a photograph of Damian looking very hard and sexy they printed the words , ‘ Damian Flint — New Chairman of Swift ? ’ |
| 10 | Well , this is very much a sandwich three days , because we 've got today and Sunday looking quite good , but a rather difficult and tense Saturday sort of tucked in between . |
| 11 | But nobody at Westminster in recent days has failed to notice Messrs Clarke and Heseltine looking very pleased with themselves . |
| 12 | Then Modigliani 's old friend , Blaise Cendrars , came to Nice to work on a film script and was shocked to see Modigliani looking so ill . |
| 13 | Mrs Jones looking very uncomfortable . |
| 14 | Hellen 's brother , Major Harold Semmens , had returned from war service in Europe looking as handsome and debonair as ever . |
| 15 | Even though she 'd told herself that she was n't going to have any thoughts or feelings on the subject at all , the sight of Alina looking so good made Diane feel just a little bit sick . |
| 16 | Both teams were playing good attacking football with Kelly and Dorigo looking particularly good down the wings . |
| 17 | Her hand trembled slightly as she place it on her father 's arm , but when she heard the traditional strains of music announcing her arrival , and saw Silas looking extremely handsome as he waited at the end of the aisle , her nervousness fled . |
| 18 | The improvement has been tremendous , in fact I am more willing to pay the dreaded poll tax just to see this part of Darlington looking as nice . |
| 19 | The second half was played at just as frantic pace as the first with both sides looking dangerous on the attack , but Abingdon looking more solid in defence . |
| 20 | She was not quite sure what all of them — she along with the rest — were laughing about ; but there they were , rolling about with mirth , and Herbert Fraser looking as pleased as Punch . |
| 21 | Among the audience looking at this cleverly designed glamorous collection was Princess Margaret looking very chic in blue , who holidayed with the Weinbergs on a yacht last summer . |
| 22 | They returned with the tea accompanied by a bottle of pills — Valium , McLeish noticed automatically — and with Mrs Morgan looking more gathered . |
| 23 | Post-war Vienna , rain-soaked cobbles , Orson Welles throwing a moody , Trevor Howard looking incredibly British — ah yes , this must be The Third Man . |