Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] looked [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tallboy was n't sure how to judge his superior 's tone but he needed a fillip to his esteem right now so he looked on the bright side . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm showing Melanie the neighbourhood , ’ said Finn , clutching his sister 's shoulders and rocking her kneeling form to and fro in an embrace which made her laugh soundlessly until she looked like a young girl . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 5 | The other factor we should also bear in mind is the great majority of the people are not only not interested , they 're basically hostile the whole business and I think that members may not have really noticed if they looked at the European newspaper , the highest ever figure , fifty three percent of all the people of Britain are now totally and completely opposed to the whole business of the E C , they do n't think it 's a good idea . |
| 6 | I think they did these figures a week or so before xmas … which explains the figures if they looked at the high scoring charts for each club . |
| 7 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 8 | Then find me when you are ready. , Her face was smiling and apparently calm , unless you looked below the painted line of her brows . |
| 9 | So I really wanted to nail the bastard — preferably with the cooperation of my team-mates just to prove the point — but the fucking technology let me down and the gun jammed and he had me pinned , firing shot after shot at me , and finally I gave up trying to un-jam the gun and made to throw it at him though I could hardly see because there was yellow paint all over my visor , but he ducked and tripped and sat down on a trunk , holding his stomach , and the bastard was laughing his socks off because I looked like a giant dripping banana , only I 'd just realised the gun was n't jammed after all , the safety catch was on . |
| 10 | She was a longstanding institution in the place and her shortcomings tended to be overlooked because she looked after an elderly invalid mother at home and everyone wondered how she managed her dual responsibilities . |
| 11 | All that was her due because she looked like the young Elizabeth Taylor , had dark brown curly hair nearly to her waist , large , dark blue eyes , creamy velvet skin and a wonderful figure . |
| 12 | More fundamental — because it looked towards a future international order rather than the waning one — was the critique of NATO and American hegemony that he developed on his return to power and that remained one of the hallmarks of his international policy throughout the 1960s . |
| 13 | Then she told me to turn my back while she looked in a secret place . |
| 14 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 15 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 16 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 17 | Mm , when I looked on the other page there was more . |
| 18 | As I looked at the few stones that remained of the castle , I learned from the magazine that the Irish-built castle of the local kings , the O'Rourkes , had once towered over the local countryside . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 20 | I turned round , half-expecting to hear a giggle , a rather inane giggle ; and then as I looked at the thick shadowy scrub near the gate , and remembered the grim reference to Prospero , a more sinister explanation came to me . |
| 21 | And then , when she looked at the high terrace with its pots of trailing geraniums , she could see nothing for the shadow was so intense — not the pale blob of a face or the movement of a hand — but she was suddenly as sure as she could be of anything that someone was standing there , looking down , waiting for them to get out of the car and watching them . |
| 22 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 23 | She shuddered when she looked in an open door and saw grey-faced children in beds with blue curtains round , propped up on pillows . |
| 24 | When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she was n't falling to pieces . |
| 25 | Jenny told herself , as she looked through the fine big annual . |
| 26 | Venice was unique , unforgettable , breathtaking in all its various moods , Luce thought as she looked over the calm water to the pale marble buildings lining the banks . |
| 27 | ‘ Delicious , ’ Clare said feebly as she looked into the smiling face and aquamarine eyes of her son . |
| 28 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 29 | As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’ |
| 30 | As she looked at the vast and busy canvas , Miss Hatherby sensed she was finding it difficult to take in and said , ‘ You know Constance , you can not look at a painting with the same eyes as you stare down Chollerton High Street . |