Example sentences of "she [vb past] look [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 2 | She stopped to look at the two houses , Brier and Rose , like identical twins wearing slightly different clothing so that one could tell them apart . |
| 3 | While doing her best to defer to Harriet and Liza , she seemed to look on the baby as her own . |
| 4 | And , repeating this like a charm : ‘ It was n't me ; it was n't me , ’ she turned to look at the red splashes on the wall . |
| 5 | She turned to look at the rear clock . |
| 6 | Then she turned to look at the Frenchman and spoke softly in his language . |
| 7 | She turned to look at the registrar as he strode smiling into the room , and her bemused expression must have registered . |
| 8 | She turned to look towards the shore , relieved when she saw the Sea-Fret making good headway back to Brides Haven , then a flock of screaming gulls startled her into resuming her climb , and soon she was on the Neck and starting the last , steep push towards the plateau . |
| 9 | Only it was so hard to do that , especially when she began looking at the sketches she had made at Kenilworth . |
| 10 | She decided to look on the positive side . |
| 11 | She was lowering herself from the tip-toe that she needed to look over the panelled backing of the window display when something else caught her eye , further down the road . |
| 12 | Who , she wondered , as she went to look at the kitchen , had kept the house in such perfect order ? |
| 13 | She kept looking at the wallscreen with distrust . |
| 14 | " Do n't be sorry , " he said , " I quite enjoyed it , " She looked up briefly then , smiling uncertainly , as though she did n't believe him , He licked his lips , moved forward , put one hand out and touched hers where it gripped the glass , She kept looking at the empty glass avoiding his face . |
| 15 | She kept looking at the telephone beside her bed , willing it to ring , dithering . |
| 16 | She liked to look at the dreadful toxins through the jewelled prison of their coloured glass bottles : ruby red , peridot green , indigo blue . |
| 17 | She liked to look at the visitors as they arrived and try to match them with the patients . |
| 18 | Halfway up the street she paused to look above the church to the hill beyond . |
| 19 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 20 | She had to look at the facts and analyse them , then draw the right conclusions . |
| 21 | She had to look after the family and the home , and sometimes she even had a part-time job as well . |
| 22 | She had looked at the first lines but now she was n't reading any of it . |
| 23 | How lovely she had looked at the early morning Mass . |
| 24 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 25 | She had looked around the company and seen that she was not out of place at all . |
| 26 | Everything she 'd ever wanted laid temptingly before her — only she had looked behind the scenes and knew the display was a hollow sham . |
| 27 | By the garden gate of Four Winds she stood looking at the house for several minutes in silence before they got back into the car and she told him how to get to the Inn on the Point . |
| 28 | When she came in she stood looking at the figure stretched out on the floor . |
| 29 | She stood looking towards the balcony and beyond it the sea . |
| 30 | She stood looking in the window , then gave a little sigh . |