Example sentences of "she looked [prep] " in BNC.

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1 But comical though he was , and although Erika laughed , yet her heart was touched , and as the bus juddered through the deserted streets , all the way home she looked into the window , seeing not the flats , factories , and dark parks , but , wonderingly , her own reflection .
2 Every room she looked into was the same .
3 She looked into his eyes and saw terrible pain and inconsolable grief .
4 His face too was unsmiling as she looked into it and said , ‘ Yes , very likely ; ’ then asked , ‘ Do … do you travel a great deal , sir ? ’
5 She looked into his eyes , watching his reaction .
6 She looked into his big brown eyes .
7 She looked into the living-room .
8 She looked into her mother 's face , pleading for understanding .
9 As she looked into his concerned eyes Carrie saw something else .
10 It was then that she looked into his eyes and went cold with shock .
11 She looked into the eyes of this human peacock and found herself at a complete loss for words ; and he too seemed surprised by this girl who had agreed to be his bride : he looked up at her ( she was half a head taller than he ) in a way that she might have interpreted as hostile had she not been in too much of a turmoil herself to notice it .
12 She looked into the forest to see if the rest of the Women were close enough to catch her , if she could evade these few …
13 Bending , she looked into the car .
14 Mavis informed him archly that when she looked into his horny palm she could hear wedding-bells .
15 Once or twice she looked into her sister 's book , but it had no pictures or conversations in it .
16 She looked into the girl 's unreadable grey eyes , appreciating the fineness of her face .
17 She had carefully thought out what she was going to say , but when , in the firelight , she looked into his dark-fringed eyes , she forgot her rehearsed words .
18 ‘ Delicious , ’ Clare said feebly as she looked into the smiling face and aquamarine eyes of her son .
19 She looked into Erik 's terrible , ugly face , and spoke again , very quietly .
20 She looked into her children 's faces .
21 Sandy said , ‘ They 're the dangerous ones , ’ and then she looked into her glass even though it was really too dark to see anything of it .
22 She looked into her empty glass .
23 She looked into the back , which was when she realized the brown holdall had gone .
24 They reminded her of the cardboard kaleidoscope she had as a child , packed with coloured fragments , which she looked into for hours , turning and watching , turning and watching .
25 She looked into the Doctor 's eyes , noticing that they glowed faintly , as if gathering and enhancing the available light .
26 For a few seconds she knew a stab of fear , and then she looked into his eyes and the fear disappeared .
27 Clare was about to decline , when she looked into the girls timid , pleading eyes , and realized with surprise that the invitation was genuine — that she was to represent , however inadequately , their reception ’ .
28 She looked into the circle of their cabal , and saw what had occupied them .
29 She looked into her future , and grew very depressed .
30 Then she looked into my eyes .
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