Example sentences of "look at [pers pn] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smoothes the dress out against her front and looks at it in the mirror . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's got to the point where he looks at you in the morning as if he 's wondering where we are going to send him next . |
| 3 | Of course I have looked at it in the past , many , many times . |
| 4 | ‘ You look like a couple of drowned rats , ’ said Mrs Wright , looking at them in the light of Philip 's torch . |
| 5 | ‘ Cheer up ! ’ says his driver , with the curling trench-coat , looking at him in the mirror . |
| 6 | Sally lay without moving , looking at him in the light of the moon . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I stood looking at it in the darkness , just aware of its bulk in the feeble light of a broken moon , and I thought it looked even bigger than it really was , like a stone-giant 's head , a huge moonlit skull full of shapes and memories , staring out to sea and attached to a vast , powerful body buried in the rock and sand beneath , ready to shrug itself free and disinter itself on some unknowable command or cue . |
| 10 | In the long term we 'd like to go on , and build a workshop , make our own recycle refurbish electrical goods , because , obviously , this is something a bit more in capital intensive , and it 's something we 're looking at it in the future . |
| 11 | ‘ Or at least look at it in the winter , ’ said Sophia . |
| 12 | But it feels strange : when you look at it in the bowl , it looks too runny to be fun , but when you touch it , it 's the squelchiest , stickiest sensation ; it turns to spaghetti when you let it drip through your fingers and it 's stodgy enough to make into patterns , swirling in different colours and practising making faces , people , letters and numbers . |
| 13 | If you look at it in the light , you can see that it was made in Bohemia . |
| 14 | I really do n't know Emily because I 've never even heard of the work and I suggest you look at it in the dictionary |
| 15 | You look at it in the dark ? |
| 16 | She could n't look at him in the face . |
| 17 | ‘ I saw him look at it in the car when we were driving to the Lubianka . |
| 18 | She turned to look at him in the darkness ; he stayed looking at her . |
| 19 | David was silent for so long that she had to look at him in the end . |
| 20 | As he mentioned the bird , he turned his back on Lesley-Jane to look at it in the glass case . |
| 21 | Woolley stopped shaving and looked at her in the mirror . |
| 22 | He looked at her in the driving mirror . |
| 23 | He looked at her in the light of the fire . |
| 24 | When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them . |
| 25 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 26 | When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him . |
| 27 | ‘ You caught a breath or two and looked at him in the end , ’ said Jo-Ann . |
| 28 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 29 | She looked at me in the candle-light . |
| 30 | I looked , I looked at it in the dark I did n't know what I was staring |