Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] looked [prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then find me when you are ready. , Her face was smiling and apparently calm , unless you looked below the painted line of her brows . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | when I looked at the front page and he said about two paragraphs |
| 10 | Every month I look in your magazine for anything to do with Dalmations and I was overjoyed when I looked at the last page . |
| 11 | When I looked at the broken bundles scattered across the floor , I recognized the faces . |
| 12 | Mm , when I looked on the other page there was more . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Benny stumbled from time to time , and became tongue-tied when she looked at the handsome boy sitting beside them . |
| 18 | When she looked in the little round mirror , she saw that she was n't falling to pieces . |
| 19 | Jenny told herself , as she looked through the fine big annual . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Delicious , ’ Clare said feebly as she looked into the smiling face and aquamarine eyes of her son . |
| 22 | And her eyes too shone as she looked at the two men sitting there . |
| 23 | As she looked at the tiny bundle she said drily : ‘ Thank goodness he has n't got ears like his father . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Lucy , all this time , was still sitting on the verandah surrounded by her cartridge-making tools and weeping bitterly as she looked at the neat rows of cartridges she had made and which were no longer needed . |
| 26 | Jessamy allowed her voice to become deliberately sympathetic as she looked at the older woman . |
| 27 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 28 | As she looked at the soft golden panelling , more of which emerged every day , the pleasure of her victory washed over Sara anew . |
| 29 | When we looked at the additional explanatory power brought to these models by information about the worker 's family responsibilities we found that parenthood had little effect on men 's labour force participation or pay . |
| 30 | That 's for one hundred thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's for ten thousand , that 's right , and when we looked at the fifteen years , that 's the for fifteen years , that 's again for twenty five . |