Example sentences of "[pers pn] look in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's j I looked in the phone book , there is only |
| 2 | I 'm not sure what I 'm aiming for when I look in the mirror . |
| 3 | Where was the little girl , or er younger I do n't want to make up because , but now I feeling I 'm aged it , I should be wearing some make up here , with just a feeling we should be , when I look in the mirror oh its getting old so |
| 4 | For a few seconds , she regarded the coatstand with its disfigured mirror , and then , creasing her brow in bewildered concentration , she thought : If I look in the mirror and do n't see myself , then I 'm a ghost . |
| 5 | Then I look in the mirror and think : ‘ You 're not Miss World , kiddo ’ , and I thank God that someone did n't determine that my appearance did n't come up to scratch . |
| 6 | Now , when I look in the bin tomorrow I wan na see something to tell . |
| 7 | I looked in the folder again to see if I 'd missed anything . |
| 8 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 9 | I have described how I looked in the mirror and , seeing myself ‘ in the flesh ’ did not recognise myself . |
| 10 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 11 | I looked in the mirror and pulled my mouth into strange shapes , aping bewilderment , comic dismay , tragic dignity . |
| 12 | Every time I looked in the mirror — and I can be a very careful driver if I want to be — I saw the languid bride with shuttered eyes and hair adrift . |
| 13 | I looked in the mirror today and I could see it in my eyes . |
| 14 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 15 | Then , one day , when I was dressing it , I looked in the mirror and could see a small protrusion out of the lump . |
| 16 | I looked in the mirror and could see a small protrusion out of the lump . |
| 17 | I looked in the mirror . |
| 18 | I looked in the mirror . |
| 19 | Mind you I ca n't talk , I looked in the mirror a couple of weeks ago and my eyes are , I mean are really they 're having a rough time indeed |
| 20 | And er she says , sh she said you came round the corner too quick , you were n't there when I looked in the mirror ! |
| 21 | " I looked in the window once and she was eating a boiled egg , with another boiled egg in an egg-cup across the table from her . |
| 22 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 23 | I looked in the kitchen to find shelled coconut pieces to cut into small cubes for the fowls " morning feed . |
| 24 | I looked in the Help the Aged this afterno , it 's closed again you know ! |
| 25 | I looked in the direction he was pointing — Roman villa , vestal virgins ' tent , WI stalls with Aunt Bedelia and Mrs Cartwright frantically buttering and jamming home-made scones , street theatre , Punch and Judy , and there 's old Jeremiah just passing the jazz band with his fingers in his ears . |
| 26 | I looked in the direction Dr Jaffery was pointing . |
| 27 | I looked in the editor 's office but no one was there . ’ |
| 28 | Oh I , I looked in the library today ! |
| 29 | No , it 's alright , I was looking in here , because I mean , it , I er , you know , I saw in the er , when I looked in the manual it said it did n't pay out on H I V , so it . |
| 30 | show them the garden , by Saturday night I felt shattered for it and I 'd come home and I looked in the cupboard and I said Ton well what do you want for your dinner then ? |