Example sentences of "[pron] looked at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs
2 I looked at the tubular lighting in the roof .
3 ( I looked at the young lad ) 'Cos my mate 's tired and I 'd like to do it .
4 I looked at the other windows in the house .
5 I looked at the other day and I was thinking oh god , I want to go to sleep a couple of days last , you know
6 When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces .
7 Then I looked at the cheerful cockney .
8 I looked at the dead Jake Rosso 's picture , and I remembered all the photographs on the walls of my room in Hong Kong .
9 I looked at the empty estate-car when we reached the other side .
10 In 1980 when Allan Wells won a Gold Medal at the Olympics I looked at the British tracksuits and thought : well , nothing much has changed in 56 years !
11 I looked at the old man calmly sitting on his mat and hated him , knowing — knowing myself — that nothing would come of this .
12 ‘ As I looked at the magnificent vehicle I could not help thinking of the historical ‘ Experiment ’ of the Stockton and Darlington Railway , or of the Exhibition excursions of 1851 , when the GW nailed rough boards across their permanent way trucks at Didcot to accommodate their third class passengers !
13 I looked at the little boy , lying there , and caught a glimpse of the father peeping from the corridor .
14 I looked at the little priest and grinned at Benjamin .
15 Telling my story , I looked at the green fields of wheat moving in the wind .
16 I looked at the double doors in horror and wondered if perchance Toplis might be hiding inside .
17 Now the curious thing was that if you looked at the early atmosphere , the molecules in that were the molecules that we expected to see in interstellar space .
18 Wherever you looked at the French giant , Renault was making progress in 1992 where other manufacturers were struggling to stand still .
19 And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her .
20 She looked at the small key on the table , then dropped that into the envelope with the note .
21 As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’
22 Turning her head slightly she looked at the cut-glass decanter on the bedside table — it was a little less than half full , which meant that she had drunk three … no , four glasses of whisky at some time during the night .
23 Swinging round in surprise , she looked at the elderly man who had spoken .
24 She looked at the strong hand as it shifted gears and continued resting on the lever .
25 As they sat together on the grass , she looked at the tumbling waters of the beck and told him how Maria had slipped on the stepping-stones , down by the farm .
26 She looked at the insignificant scorch marks on its cover and said , ‘ This would n't have been necessary if you had n't been so cagey with me .
27 She looked at the healthy gloss of black hair springing from a widow 's peak , the thickly lashed eyes under winged brows , the mouth that could be austere and cruel but was now warm and sensuous , and said thickly , ‘ Perhaps we could go into the garden ? ’
28 She looked at the narrow flight of stone stairs leading to the upper floors , and knew that wild horses would n't drag her up them .
29 She looked at the young man , Clive .
30 She looked at the burnt-out hopper and the forest savaged by the cataclysmic explosion .
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