Example sentences of "would look [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women would look up and congratulate me and encourage me to ‘ go on , go on , you can , you can ’ . |
| 2 | I half hoped she would look up and wave , though of course the idea was ridiculous . |
| 3 | I thought I would look up and see King Tut staring down with a hacksaw blade in his hand . ’ |
| 4 | The truckloads of returned prisoners drove past the office and the girls draped the banner between two windows and hung from the window ringing a handbell so that the men would look up and see the banner and hear them cheering . |
| 5 | Then he would look up and see her . |
| 6 | She leaned out of the window , half-terrified , half-hopeful that he would look up and see her . |
| 7 | Whenever he caught the eye of one of them , the boy would look away and allow his conversation to die . |
| 8 | She sat watching him for a moment , hoping he would look around and smile ; but he kept his back turned to her and continued to gaze abstractedly out the window . |
| 9 | Then , seeing the hinged clouds fold down to reveal God and all His angels , the wife would look once and look again and stand up and point and clutch her apron to her mouth … |
| 10 | Later , his parents would look back and see this moment as an early warning of the nightmare that was to consume them . |
| 11 | On the subject of predictions , and while the Prime Minister reflects today on the gloomy report by the Confederation of British Industry , does he recall on new year 's day this year saying on Radio 4 that in retrospect , we would look back and say that the economic recovery had already started ? |