Example sentences of "was look [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In particular the whole idea of a Prime Minister was looked on with the gravest suspicion .
2 You 've got to remember that at the time , deregulation was looked on as an open cash-register .
3 Yet right up until the Second World War , I suspect , Pau was looked on by a certain kind of English middle-class family as a safe and congenial southern town to which one might retire , or where , if need arose , the socially disgraced might comfortably hide .
4 He was looking round with a vacant look on his face and I was frightened .
5 Behind her , Nahum was looking on with an unsmiling face .
6 She was looking down at the two children , her face animated as she turned the page of the book on her lap .
7 It must have been an automatic reaction because he was looking down at the motionless figure and shouting , ‘ Harriet ! ’
8 The women were seated straight-backed on the edge of two big cane armchairs , and Robert , his back turned , was looking out of a high arched window .
9 In the back a woman was looking out of the open window , her chin propped on the heel of her hand .
10 Chris was looking back at a colourful four-wheeled cart drawn by two tasselled horses .
  Next page