Example sentences of "and looking [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There he was , standing beside the bed in grey trousers and a black jersey , and looking disgustingly wide-awake . |
| 2 | She would have described herself quite objectively as aged 35 and looking neither older nor younger , height 5 feet 4 and usually just under nine stone with a figure that was well kept rather than dramatic . |
| 3 | The dog never paid any attention to any of these commands , but , like most dogs , carried on eating golf balls , smelling strangers ' private parts , and looking immensely pleased with himself . |
| 4 | He was conscious of the fact that Madeleine was toying with her food and looking increasingly bored . |
| 5 | Before we went we met in the family room , Tremayne pretending nonchalance and looking unexpectedly sophisticated in his dinner jacket : grey hair smooth in wings , strong features composed , bulky body slimmed by ample expert tailoring . |
| 6 | The lights changed and the truck pulled off with Chase trying to keep his balance and looking thoroughly bemused . |
| 7 | Harlequin ducks were enjoying the rapids and sun , toing and froing , preening and looking most elegant , and I was enjoying myself , crawling commando-style at the water 's edge , despite the odd passer-by 's curious gaze . |
| 8 | He was back quite soon and looking distinctly puzzled . |
| 9 | Immediately beyond , a short lane leads up to a long terrace of cottages built to house the workers of the Millthrop woollen mill nearby across the river , and looking rather forlorn and out of place since their source of employment was destroyed by fire many years ago . |
| 10 | She stared at him in some amazement , and looking rather confused , João backed out and left her with her Imitation . |
| 11 | He was holding the animal 's head up by its antlers and looking shyly pleased at the camera . |
| 12 | But walking along beside him , sucking his cane , and looking ineffably bored as he escorted his new marchioness , née Miss Maybelle Foy , the meat-packer 's heiress from Chicago , was none other than Havvie Blaine , of unblessed memory . |
| 13 | Felix bawled angrily , on his feet , with his arms swinging on a curve away from his body and looking abnormally long . |
| 14 | And she was n't depending only on her instinct — yesterday he had come home too late to go to the Sabbath commencement service and looking very tired . |
| 15 | On one of them the poor little creature sat nursing his arm and looking very sorry for himself . |
| 16 | The early potatoes were well up and looking very healthy , I was happy to see . |
| 17 | In broad daylight what 's more — and looking very charming in it too . |
| 18 | A picture of the Shah at the ruined temple on Philae shows him in a blazer and tie , wearing tinted glasses and looking very gaunt as a guide earnestly explains it all to him . |
| 19 | I was shocked when I first went into the Marsden and saw all these people with no hair , very white , being wheeled around in wheel chairs with cannulas and drips and looking very sickly . |
| 20 | She was sitting back relaxedly and looking more contented than she had for some time . |
| 21 | " Ah , " Mr Starke said , sitting forward in his seat and looking more interested , " you resigned ? " |
| 22 | ‘ It is nice to see the green are in good heart and looking so good . ’ |
| 23 | One afternoon a week he received tuition from Minton whom he first saw seated on a windowsill , hugging his legs and looking as young as some of the students he taught . |
| 24 | There was Woil with the usual Man-welcoming expression on his face and looking as harmless as a tired sparrow and saying , ‘ Nice Man , welcome food , good to bring it to grateful Woil . |
| 25 | She was not otherwise positively ill-looking , though anxious , meagre , of a muddy complexion , and looking as old again as she really was . |
| 26 | He flung one leg round the door post , demanded a Las Vegas introduction and swarmed into the room murmuring good evening , stopping when he saw Jay and looking totally bemused . |
| 27 | Dot sat herself cross-legged on the bed and watched him perched on the chair by the window , blinking and twitching and fidgeting but never looking her way , then seeming to fall asleep and looking quite young , younger than Mr Brown anyhow , and certainly not at all like Sally 's dad who 'd been to Burma and eaten rats . |
| 28 | Although upright and looking much younger than her years , she seemed to have changed a great deal from when I had seen her last , and she wore a slightly dazed expression ( as well she might , I told myself , considering her age and the difficulty of her situation ) . |
| 29 | And , after being out in the sunshine with the children most of the day , she 'd lost her pale , city complexion , becoming as brown as a berry and looking much younger . |
| 30 | He was already standing in the doorway , looking at her , and looking damned pleased with himself , too . |