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Example sentences of "[pron] looked at [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	I looked at her dark face , filled with a mixture of anger and hurt , then at little Mary beside her who , over the years , solemnly drank in the insults offered to her beloved mother .
2	My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality .
3	And so I looked at my uneasy mistress with an anxious and angry eye which she was unable to meet .
4	I looked at my poor troopers .
5	I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through .
6	And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning .
7	If I said I saw sex organs when I looked at your rotten ink blots that would really get you going , would n't it ?
8	I looked at his young wife , Dawn , with her four young children visiting Salisbury for the week-end .
9	And I looked at his sad face .
10	I looked at his plastered leg .
11	I looked at his little hands , counted his fingers and wondered how perfect he was .
12	Princess Ashraf later wrote that as Carter spoke , " I looked at his pale face .
13	As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him .
14	I looked at our fellow passengers .
15	She looked at her best as she ran laughing into the warm wind .
16	As you can probably tell from my figure , ’ and she looked at her plump legs with satisfaction , ‘ I like my food ! ’
17	She looked at her own body , and exposed its imperfections with both ruthlessness and affection .
18	So here Belinda was , with that naked feeling she always got when she looked at her wet hair and towel-draped neck under the bright lights of a salon , and she very much hoped that Faye was right about the end result looking ‘ fabulous ’ , because she was determined to show everyone at drinks this evening that she was just as soignée , just as at ease in a smart social gathering as they were .
19	Yesterday she looked at her eight-pound new arrival , born at Arrowe Park Hospital , and said : ‘ It was a fabulous moment when the doctors came in with him and let me hold him . ’
20	She looked at her handsome companion , who stuck to his sleeked-back hairstyle even when relaxed .
21	She looked at his broad back , then at the short trousers , and smiled to herself , returning her attention to her coffee .
22	She looked at his crumpled clothing , and the dark shadow on his jaw .
23	She looked at his imploring face , and felt a stab of guilt , that he was right , that she 'd better take care … .
24	She looked at his fine , thin hands , the turned wrists where there were fair hairs on the brown skin , and put her face up to his .
25	She looked at his white face and the traces of sick round his mouth and wanted to shake him .
26	At last she managed to tax Rosie who looked at her astonished .
27	Thank you very much for that question , I think it is an important one , because we looked at our international work , as we did at all our work , over the period that we were considering reorganisation .
28	In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined .
29	They looked at her pale , dreaming face and said nothing .
30	No longer were they able to allow for unforeseen problems so they looked at their traditional contracts for any opportunity for reimbursement of additional costs .