Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] a [adj] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gave him a surprised look . |
| 2 | I gave him a hard look . |
| 3 | I gave him a hard look . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , this is the real world , ’ I said out loud — too loud actually ; someone gave me a funny look . |
| 5 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 6 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 7 | Beneath the strong nose was a dark moustache , thin and slicked down , which gave him a Latin look . |
| 8 | She cast him a scathing look . |
| 9 | She threw him a cool look as she scooped the papers from his desk . |
| 10 | She threw him a cool look . |
| 11 | She threw him a suspicious look . |
| 12 | Then she threw him a shrewd look . |
| 13 | She threw him a scathing look . |
| 14 | As though deliberately to alienate him , she tossed him a bold look . |
| 15 | She sent him a reproachful look . |
| 16 | She sent him a haunted look , stammered that she was going , and tried to sidle past him . |
| 17 | She sent him a withering look . |
| 18 | Now , as the large car purred into movement , she sent him a tentative look . |
| 19 | Her breath caught , and she sent him a startled look and , as her heart gave a merry flutter to see that his dark-eyed glance , dark and good-humoured if she was not mistaken , was on her again , ‘ Are you inviting me to call you — Vendelin ? ’ she dared , and hardly believed that it could be so . |
| 20 | At last I found a young doctor who gave me a curious look , but I begged him to examine Rachel , which he did , and then looked up and said , ‘ My dear lady , your daughter has bubonic plague ! ’ |
| 21 | She flicked him a cool look . |
| 22 | She gave me a sharp look . |
| 23 | She gave me a quick look , softened by a little smile . |
| 24 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 25 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 26 | She gave me a prissy look . |
| 27 | She gave me a puzzled look . |
| 28 | She gave him a sharp look . |
| 29 | She gave him a bored look . |
| 30 | She gave him a mistrusting look and altered the question . |