Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum looked down at me and I could tell she was just about to cry . |
| 2 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 3 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 4 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 5 | Actually , it could have been ‘ See , you ! ’ — and I 've even told people since that it was ‘ See you , Jimmy ’ — but then and there , lying flat on my back looking up at Shifty-Eyes and still holding his foot , all I really registered was that the ‘ you ’ came out as just ‘ U ’ . |
| 6 | My father looked round , startled . |
| 7 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 8 | I do n't live my life looking up to other people , setting my life on the example of others , yeah fair enough |
| 9 | while my daughter looks on , |
| 10 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 11 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 12 | My dad looked back at me . |
| 13 | My master looked up , his face as hard as stone , the skin drawn tight . |
| 14 | My Cid looked back and saw Alvar Salvadores beside him , and he said , go now , take two hundred horse , and sally upon yonder Moors who are entering the gardens ; let Doña Ximena and her daughters see the good will you have to serve them . |
| 15 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 16 | My mother looked up at him as he climbed down . |
| 17 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |
| 18 | My mother looked round with an expression of misgiving . |
| 19 | Mum says that it took her hours to look up all the verses . |
| 20 | But still her mind looked back , of its own accord , to Lajos , the harpies of the women 's magazine , Algox , and it seemed she had always been got at , and ‘ they ’ were still getting at her . |
| 21 | Everyone felt it , and the air being still pregnant with prophecy and contention , everyone started and pricked attentive ears , and several opened their eyes to look round towards the source of this abrupt wind from the outer world . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've never seen so many , ’ Jenna remarked , turning in her seat to look back . |
| 23 | Her window looked out of the back of the house , onto what had once been a small garden . |
| 24 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 25 | Her parents looked on indulgently . |
| 26 | Her reflection looked up at her from the dark water . |
| 27 | Even the men cleaning their weapons looked up at the mention of the name . |
| 28 | At that , the door opened , and her husband looked back at her , his moustache bristling . |
| 29 | She turned her head to look up at him . |
| 30 | ‘ I wonder , ’ Miriam Bernstein is saying to Jack , craning her head to look up at those same lights , ‘ if Howard and Felicity will be there … ’ |