Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I looked through it this time . |
| 2 | Southey looked for him first at the Salutation and Cat in Newgate Street , where the landlord had given Coleridge free quarters because his conversation was so good for trade . |
| 3 | It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try . |
| 4 | You looked after her all that time and you 're still looking after her . ’ |
| 5 | It was all very disturbing , and Angela quite dreaded being seen by Bully and wished very much that he did n't live anywhere near her , or that his owner , Mr. Black , looked after him better and trained him . |
| 6 | So the cat and the buzzard were added to their company , and the young lord looked after them all , fed them and kept them warm . |
| 7 | She understood my sister perfectly and looked after us all very well . |
| 8 | My little mistress went from her father 's bedroom to mine , and back again , and looked after us both with the greatest care . |
| 9 | Wallace 's angled runs were badly missed : - the Whelan/Deane partnership did not work at the beginning of the season and never looked like it last night . |
| 10 | He took his stand sturdily , folded his hands , and looked round them all in turn , as at a panel of his judges . |
| 11 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 12 | The whole of tonight 's entertainment looked to me unreal , something like a banqueting scene of an opera , and I should not have been surprised to find the capon under my knife to consist of cardboard and my ‘ goblet of sparkling wine ’ full of emptiness with a rim of cotton wool to represent the foam of the champagne that was not there . |
| 13 | Joe looked on us both with quizzical amusement , no doubt savouring the incongruity of our companionship . |
| 14 | She 'd as soon trust a rattlesnake when he looked at her that way ! |
| 15 | When he looked at her that way he had the most uncanny knack of making her believe he could see right into her soul , and it was a deeply uncomfortable sensation . |
| 16 | They looked at her all when they pulled her sheets and blankets all back , the whole mattress is all a , all glowing |
| 17 | But because she did n't respond , I looked at her more . |
| 18 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 19 | Well , well she was , she was standing outside , I mean I looked at her this morning and I 've loo so I 've sort of looked at her , and I was going to speak to her and then this fella walked up and I thought , I , I mean I could n't gauge whether , and I mean my , I , I was thinking what I was going to say anyway , I was going to say er you know sa is it Paula so you perhaps do n't remember me but I , I , and then I was going to say I 'm Adrian , Adrian |
| 20 | He looked at them all and knew he could n't . |
| 21 | She looked at them all , one by one , then again at the oldest boy . |
| 22 | He looked at them all . |
| 23 | Thomas looked at them all , and then at Simon , who was now a small figure and in another sense no longer monstrous , because he was walking exactly as he had done when he was a very young child and most moving to Thomas , with his hands in his pockets and his back arched . |
| 24 | Grainne looked at them all with love and delight , and with an immense tenderness , and said , ‘ Are you so sure ? ’ |
| 25 | If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’ |
| 26 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |
| 27 | She looked at them one last time . |
| 28 | He says slight seconds , well I looked at them last night and there 's , I ca n't see nowt wrong with them . |
| 29 | His mouth trembling , he looked at them both and then down at the knife-edge creases in his trousers . |
| 30 | Sir Daniel was already at the door , shrugging into his heavy black overcoat with its expensive sheen and elegantly cut lines , and he looked at them both with only the faintest narrowing of his eyes altering his expression of bland good will . |