Example sentences of "look [adv prt] [conj] [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joe looked in and saw a dark stairway . |
| 2 | I looked down and saw a giant freshwater prawn almost a foot long . |
| 3 | He looked down and saw a man , small , dark , with black hair flowing down to his shoulders , staring up at him . |
| 4 | A little boy tugged at my skirt ; I looked down and saw a brown face with the sun on it , smiling . |
| 5 | Ann looked up and forced a smile ; and when Jennifer glanced up the table at the master of the house , Harry replied with a wink . |
| 6 | Robyn looked up and forced a sarcastic smile . |
| 7 | He looked up and managed a somewhat wavering smile . |
| 8 | Adam looked up and saw a storm-trooper running towards him , waving his hand . |
| 9 | I looked up and saw a big-ribbed canopy of light pink and white descending over me , and the next moment I felt myself drawn downward , feet first , and I realised that I was being swallowed by a whale . |
| 10 | Elizabeth looked up and saw a brown uniform and a friendly face , framed in the lovely black hair typical of the Maltese . |
| 11 | He looked up and saw a plane following him down ; it too had a battered wing-tip . |
| 12 | He looked up and saw a wooden stave falling towards his head . |
| 13 | Jack looked up and wiped a grubby hand wearily over his face , streaking the dirt still further . |
| 14 | Willie looked up and gave a brief smile . |
| 15 | Mama looked up and gave a great big sigh . |
| 16 | He paused and refilled our glasses , looked up and waved a greeting at a couple by the bar . |
| 17 | Meredith looked back and blew a rasp at them . |
| 18 | Once on a hilltop the trees broke , and we looked back and saw a vast red light on the horizon . |
| 19 | As I reached the end of the student union building I looked back and gave a little finger-wiggle . |
| 20 | One night he heard a loud noise in the yard , looked out and saw a black person apparently being whipped — as he thought , to death . |
| 21 | Hopping awkwardly to the door he looked out and caught a glimpse of Carrie standing there dressed only in a linen slip , with one arm clutching a bundle of bedclothes , the other holding a candle . |
| 22 | He looked around and saw a great many faces all wearing the same expression , an expression stating that they were never going to be surprised by anything in history and that they had already had every thought that was ever going to be in his head . |
| 23 | After a while his feet found a road , and he looked round and saw a house in the distance . |