Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pers pn] look [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This survey revealed that 4 per cent of adults reported that they looked after a dependant living in the same house ( i.e. they were co-resident carer ) with a further 10 per cent reporting that they looked after a dependant in another household ( i.e. they were an extra-resident carer ) . |
| 2 | Anne Hopper winced as she looked at the remains of the bullock lying on the large wooden worktop in the prison kitchen . |
| 3 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 4 | But I found when I looked at my books a week ago , or a fortnight ago , I thought , oh I know this , I know this , but it 's not until you get into it that you think shit ! |
| 5 | Kress stopped as he looked at the blued muzzle of the .38 . |
| 6 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |
| 7 | His eyes flickered as he looked at her , and she knew he was searching his mind for a joke . |
| 8 | Manager Barry Forshaw said that the ground floor of the shop was ‘ wrecked ’ , but added that it looked as if no structural damage had been done : ‘ it looks worse than it really is ’ . |
| 9 | Anyway , I went back to the bookcase and Chris , in fact , also came and we looked for them , he said , here it is ! |
| 10 | However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger . |
| 11 | Where , when you sub- contract some international work , at some stage you get something back that you checked and it looked like a right pig but . |
| 12 | I turned and we looked at each other . |
| 13 | He nodded and he looked at me for the first time . |
| 14 | Cotterell nodded as he looked at the list of biographical queries . |
| 15 | Forster frowned as he looked through his spy hole . |
| 16 | Eyes which widened when they looked at Sabine , then became opaque — blank . |
| 17 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 18 | A young ‘ chic ’ girl placed herself in his empty place , fixing her eye liner in the fake sun light of the train , sighed as she looked around the carriage and then smiled to herself , there was obviously no competition so she failed to add an extra layer of lip-stick . |
| 19 | Jonna flinched back and Annie sighed as she looked from father to son . |
| 20 | ‘ You remarked that she looks as if she were asleep . |
| 21 | he grinned and he looked at me and said |
| 22 | Our electronic publishing operation began when we looked at buying Computing Today , a magazine I spent some four years editing , which Argus were closing down . |
| 23 | Right then we decided that we look at materials and what . |
| 24 | So O decided that he looked like a beggar after all . |
| 25 | She shuddered when she looked in an open door and saw grey-faced children in beds with blue curtains round , propped up on pillows . |
| 26 | The structure of this argument is important because we find it repeated when we look at the traditional ways in which it is sought to legitimate private power . |
| 27 | The twist of his mouth betrayed an inner fury , while his eyes blazed as he looked at her . |
| 28 | She started as she looked at her father . |
| 29 | I looked more closely at his cheeks , and saw that they looked as if they had been rubbed to get them red . |
| 30 | He knew that he looked like an ox , but that counted for nothing ; an ox could drop in its tracks just as easily as anything else . |