Example sentences of "he could look " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moran rattled the newspaper a few times but by the time he could look around the three children were locked back into their school books . |
| 2 | There were times when his own belief in himself as a great player could backfire on him if he failed to realize that he was having an off day , and he could look stubborn and bloody-minded as a result . |
| 3 | When he crouched in the gap between the attic door and the first curve of the banister , he could look through the rails and see right along the ground-floor corridor to the kitchen . |
| 4 | Belly flat in the water , he inched his bound hands forward and drew his face clear of the undergrowth so that he could look upriver while remaining camouflaged by the overhang of a wild coffee bush . |
| 5 | He could look after His protégé in the water as well as on dry land . |
| 6 | They drew the eye to One Tree Hill , now forested over , and from this clump , at Chested , he could look back over the top of Chiddingstone Castle to another clump at Mark Beech beyond . |
| 7 | Friction led to furious rows and the rows led to Willy demanding that he should be allowed to take a room where he could look after himself . |
| 8 | Vologsky increased his pace , momentarily , gaining a few feet so that he could look back at Kirov 's grim face . |
| 9 | He had thought he could look at a picture of Wyvis Hall , a photograph he had taken himself with a cheap camera Zosie had stolen , with equanimity and even a rueful amusement , but it appeared he could not . |
| 10 | Of course he could look up Robin Tatian but where , really , would that get him ? |
| 11 | Now Mr Albert , with more ability than Hank thought such an old fogey could exhibit , had shown him that he could look quite as dignified as Captain Dawson , not a bent peasant like Grandfather Palichuk or a rugged , outdoor type like his father , but a very respectable townsman called Hank Stych . |
| 12 | He could look quite hard , she thought suddenly . |
| 13 | Well , he could look around in time . |
| 14 | Holding her away from him so he could look into her face , he spoke to her . |
| 15 | As the cabinet 's toughest fighter ( and worst-dressed member ) , Mr Clarke knows how dishevelled he could look after grappling with a budget deficit forecast to be £50 billion ( $18 billion ) this year . |
| 16 | He could look at her , yearn for her , but never touch her because he had no right to the adoration he saw in her eyes . |
| 17 | He shifted so he could look at her . |
| 18 | But at the same time he could look like a fool , crooning ‘ Proud Mary ’ along with Snow White on Oscar night ; he thought he was just being a trouper . |
| 19 | Before he could look round , a pair of arms was thrown tightly around his neck . |
| 20 | She did turn her head then , but only to smile at David and marvel that he could look so happy ; but even as she watched his face seemed to grow colder and he nodded . |
| 21 | He twisted in his chair so that he could look at her , and she leaned down and kissed his forehead . |
| 22 | He could look into any of the bedrooms if he wanted to . |
| 23 | One of the bigger vans made an effective screen at the end of a line of the unmarked pool cars , meaning that he could look them over without being seen from the main building . |
| 24 | Her grip began to slacken and he kicked a little harder , perhaps sensing a reprieve , and he managed to turn his head around so that he could look at her . |
| 25 | Rory held his collar out so that he could look at it . |
| 26 | There were no windows he could look in ; whatever horrors went on within those wooden walls were kept well secluded from prying eyes . |
| 27 | He rubbed his chin absently on the top of Tessa 's head , so that he could look over it at the girl . |
| 28 | He leant across the back seat so that he could look up and see her face . |
| 29 | And then I , well if it 's really income he needs , I thought he could look at an equities portfolio for the eighty thousand , say , forty thousand in er groceries and forty thousand in pharmaceutical . |
| 30 | He said it abruptly , his body twisted round so that he could look back at the hotel . |