Example sentences of "she [verb] looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne , 13 , says simply : ‘ Mum has n't just looked after her own children , she has looked after so many others . |
| 2 | More human than she 'd looked all morning , he thought , realizing he had taken against his witness at least partly because she was alive and the amusing , lively , feminine creature that had been Angela Morgan was not . |
| 3 | She 'd looked at me a bit strange , the woman in charge of the Bed-and-Breakfast , but I 'd paid on the nail and ordered in my refined accent , ‘ And a cooked breakfast , please ’ — so no hassle . |
| 4 | If only she 'd looked behind her , she 'd have seen how to avoid the discomfort . |
| 5 | Pamela had nearly had a heart attack when she 'd looked at this year 's brochure and seen how much it would cost . |
| 6 | He could n't help thinking of something that she 'd said in all seriousness when they 'd left the apartment building behind and a lack of any interest from a passing night patrol on the motorway had told him that no , the police did n't seem to be keeping an active watch for his car ; she 'd looked at him and she 'd said , Promise me , Peter . |
| 7 | There was no denying the fact that she 'd looked terrible , just then.As if she 'd seen a ghost , he thought uneasily . |
| 8 | ‘ Georgina said she 'd looked through his papers last night . ’ |
| 9 | Yet Mrs Blakey continued to sense the unease she 'd been aware of on the telephone , which she 'd first of all sensed when she 'd looked out of the landing window and seen the boy with the children in the garden . |
| 10 | She 'd looked for an opening and had had to contrive her entry . |
| 11 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 12 | It was no wonder she 'd looked as if she 'd aged , she thought guiltily , and no wonder she 'd looked miserable ; the poor woman did n't have too much to look happy about . |
| 13 | She was surprised she had n't noticed the coincidence when she 'd looked at Donna 's file . |
| 14 | And the way she 'd looked at her on the doorstep , and the cup of tea she 'd spilled and blamed on her age . |
| 15 | She 'd looked as if she 'd seen the devil himself . |
| 16 | Cara nodded , and elatedly went on to tell them that she had heard , only that morning when she 'd looked in at her office to check her post before driving up to Cheltenham , that she 'd pulled off an interview with none other than Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 17 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 18 | It was something she hand't looked for and she was almost dismayed . |
| 19 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 20 | She had looked up ; and like the sunflowers she was facing right into the heart of the brightness which preceded the sun . |
| 21 | ‘ You 'll love the garden , Bea , ’ he insisted when she had looked longingly , lazily , at the swimming pool . |
| 22 | She had imagined that the doctor would be male ; she had looked forward to it even , a chance to pit herself against him , to resist , to overcome ; but when she was finally ushered into the consulting room she was greeted by a woman younger than herself . |
| 23 | I should have been as timid as the girl herself , if she had looked at me ! |
| 24 | He could have stood the writing as long as she had looked up to him for guidance like one of his young workshop pupils . |
| 25 | She had looked in Marie 's direction but she had made no sign of recognition . |
| 26 | She had looked out of her bedroom window upon an unjust world , upon undeserved sadness , upon concatenation of ill-luck , upon the at least equal odds of sickness , spinsterhood and narrow horizons . |
| 27 | But a short fur jacket that had belonged to Faith , one which fitted Kathleen and which she had looked forward to wearing the following winter , that had gone from its polythene bag in Faith 's wardrobe . |
| 28 | How thrilled the girl had been to be going to the Holy City , how lovely she had looked in a jacket of scarlet silk , a birthday present given only the day before by Mrs Browning , how she had glowed and shivered with anticipation … |
| 29 | She had looked up ; she had looked around ; the frescos left her with an abiding sense of hopelessness , reinforced by the pastor 's impotent testimony . |
| 30 | She had looked up ; she had looked around ; the frescos left her with an abiding sense of hopelessness , reinforced by the pastor 's impotent testimony . |