Example sentences of "[subord] i look [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 My eyes go funny after a bit , so I look at summat else .
2 If I looked at them all night long , I should n't grow tired of the sight . ’
3 However , I realized if I looked at it underwater , it was bigger .
4 Jim did say if I looked at mine , and I only have just looked at it er if I 've read the fig if I 've read the figures right and I
5 ‘ I 'm sure he 'd recover if I looked after him .
6 If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again .
7 I keep saying we looked at cos I looked at it on Sunday and
8 Cos I looked at I ca n't see it .
9 Yeah cos I looked in ours and I said to our Joe I 'd like a nice dress .
10 So far as I can reconstruct events , I was gazing at the water jug when the exchange started ; I discovered I was smiling when I realized that Anne was watching me ; whereupon I looked at her interrogatively ; she looked at the water jug with a slight frown ; Millie glanced at each of us in turn , then picked up her dessert spoon and studied that instead ; I watched her smiling at the spoon ; which made me start smiling again ; which made Anne start looking at me again ; which … kept us all occupied throughout the main course .
11 Now I may not remember always the make first glance off unless I look at it .
12 We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship .
13 Well maybe it 's because I look at it as a school like that 's
14 They never wear out because I look after them so well and they stay young while I …
15 Then , while I looked at his face , something strange happened .
16 That 's why I want you to lie low for a couple of days , while I look into it . ’
17 I stepped back to avoid the overpowering closeness of his face and a little man on the inner circle of the crowd startled me with a friendly smile , but I could not find him again when I looked for him .
18 It 's hardly worth drawing the cheques in certain cases and the capital programme , could n't see it actually when I looked for it first time , had to go back to the pink sheet and found the noughts , now we 're not as generous as we 'd like to be , but at least we try .
19 Good progress was made on the Saturday but when I looked at what still remained for Sunday , I thought we 'd do well to finish half the distance .
20 When I looked at her her eyes had tears in them like my own .
21 When I looked at him , there were tears in his eyes , and he said , ‘ It 's not us who 'll have the problem , Mum .
22 When I looked at him , he laughed : blah blah Killer blah .
23 When I looked at him in the darkness , I began to wonder if all of what he had told me earlier could be some trick on me , played by the spirits who had sent him .
24 He was on his front when I looked at him .
25 When I 'm about to tell you a story , I thought to myself well stories that Jesus used to tell were parables and when I looked at them in the bible they had a kingdom meaning to them .
26 Yeah , I know One pair of those tights were seven ninety nine , it 's no wonder I thought they were nice when I looked at them .
27 He seemed bright enough and very eager to learn , but when I went to the school to see his work I found that his handwriting was very , very bad and his spelling was absolutely atrocious , and although he was good at mathematics , as time went on he began to get very worried and very upset about it and when I looked at his work I realized that he was doing a lot of the words back to front and was getting the direction of figures mixed up .
28 When I looked at my watch I was amazed to see that it was well after six .
29 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 !
30 When I looked at it , I cried out in spite of myself .
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