Example sentences of "[vb past] look at [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 2 | ‘ Angus ’ — he dropped the timber he was lifting , letting it clank off the others , and turned to look at him with widened eyes and squared mouth , like the face of someone taking a great strain . |
| 3 | A heartbeat before , he had looked at her with blind passion , then with something that bordered on contempt . |
| 4 | On the one occasion she had broached the subject of his mother , David had looked at her with cold eyes , saying in a hard voice , ‘ My mother was her own worst enemy . |
| 5 | Flattered when he had looked at her in that particular way which was both critical and yet admiring at the same time ? |
| 6 | Bertha had looked at her in thoughtful silence for several long moments before she 'd said , ‘ Dear Lucy — I believe you could help me in this affair . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Nobody had looked at it in great detail , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Even so she found it impossible to keep her mind properly on her own problems when he continued to look at her like that , so she picked him up on one niggling point that continued to irritate her . |
| 9 | It was so faint that he had to look at it for some time before he could make any sense of it . |