Example sentences of "[was/were] look at [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours spent beneath the apple tree assumed a distorted quality as though she were looking at them through an unfocused lens . |
| 2 | She lifted a hand to shade her eyes and Martin Jackson 's face appeared on the backdrop of light , as if he were looking at her from the sun 's centre . |
| 3 | The pilots were looking at him with a mixture of dread and shock . |
| 4 | They were looking at him with an air that mingled irony and respect . |
| 5 | He was just about to shrug off the question with ‘ I du n no ’ when he noticed that George and the twins were looking at him for an answer . |
| 6 | He joked that the other diners were looking at him like a wife-batterer . |
| 7 | He knew the pattern of the carpet by heart but now it was as if he were looking at it for the first time , taking it all in , the design of orange and black squares . |
| 8 | well I do feel that a car is looked at from a performance point of view , I mean I agree that a lot of bad drivers , but I still think you could help a lot by getting the design of the car right , because sometimes accidents do happen , even though nobody is really at fault and er I feel strongly that were looking at it from the wrong way round . |
| 9 | She was looking at me with a special kind of interest now . |
| 10 | I got her a pair of tough brogues from the plastic bag and all the time I was putting them on her she was looking at me with a vacant stare , her eyes still very wide , the pupils enormous . |
| 11 | He was looking at me in a desperate way . |
| 12 | He was looking at me in a puzzled way . |
| 13 | Emily was looking at me in a way I found frankly flirtatious . |
| 14 | I could tell that my father was looking at me from the other end of the table , swilling his juice round in his glass and staring at my head as I bent over my plate . |
| 15 | As she turned to wait for me at the end of the path , I felt I was looking at her for the first time : her face paler than her arms , a blonde shadow on her upper lip , no lipstick . |
| 16 | Orin was looking at her as a Neanderthal might look at homo sapiens after a lecture on Darwinism . |
| 17 | He was looking at her with a decidedly mischievous gleam in his eye . |
| 18 | But he was looking at her with a dark intensity that made her nerves quiver very oddly . |
| 19 | Barney was looking at her with a strange expression , half puzzled , half tender . |
| 20 | He was looking at her with an icy contempt . |
| 21 | She longed , oh , she burned to be able to tell him the truth , but Ace 's threats held ; also by the way Mike was looking at her at the moment he probably would n't believe her if she told him the truth about their relationship . |
| 22 | Agnes started and went towards her mother , who was looking at her from the kitchen doorway . |
| 23 | Having , as she thought , settled their relationship satisfactorily , Ianthe was then conscious that he was looking at her in a way that did not seem quite what she thought of as brotherly , though she had never had any brothers of her own to make the comparison with . |
| 24 | Anyway , the word is and it came from somebody who said he was looking at her in the Chamber the other day that she is going blind . |
| 25 | Vitor was looking at her in the way he had looked at her so many months ago — when they had first met , when she had felt that tug . |
| 26 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 27 | The robbers ran off down a nearby street , but fired their gun again at a women who was looking at them through the window of a hairdressers shop . |
| 28 | Mala was looking at them in a distant and superior way when I sidled up next to her . |
| 29 | But Sir Daniel was looking at him with a satisfied expression on his face . |
| 30 | He waited for her smile but she was looking at him with a serious , strained expression . |