Example sentences of "[vb past] i a [adj] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave me a strange look . |
| 2 | As the lift stopped at our floor Ira Dilworth gave me a dark look , admonishing my temerity . |
| 3 | At last I found a young doctor who gave me a curious look , but I begged him to examine Rachel , which he did , and then looked up and said , ‘ My dear lady , your daughter has bubonic plague ! ’ |
| 4 | She gave me a sharp look . |
| 5 | He gave me a quizzical look , then indicated to the left side of the school . |
| 6 | One agent in North 's employ remembered being over at CIA headquarters one day when a call came in to him from North , ‘ and everybody in the room gave me a dirty look . ’ |
| 7 | He gave me a long look . |
| 8 | When I was foolish enough to laugh at a preposterous and provocative statement made by Mr Dinsdale — who had surely modelled himself on Dickens 's character Mr Bounderby — he gave me a withering look and asked sarcastically : ‘ Is this a reason to laugh ? ’ |
| 9 | I intended to ask the Baronessa Dulcibene why she had come to pay her last respects to this mysterious Englishman but she gave me a glassy look of non-recognition and moved rapidly away with her companion . |
| 10 | He gave me a swift look . |
| 11 | He gave me a shrewd look , clearly suspecting that I would have changed the name had I dared defy the superstition . |
| 12 | ( Oh , yes , I was a handsome rogue , tall with jet-black hair , olive-skinned but with a cast in one eye , I always thought it gave me a devil-may-care look . ) |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , this is the real world , ’ I said out loud — too loud actually ; someone gave me a funny look . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ Oh , I 'm terribly sorry , Prime Minister ’ , gave me a funny look and left . |
| 15 | I thought , in my anxious state , that the orderly gave me a funny look as he left me there . |
| 16 | The Sheikha gave me a questioning look and I answered , ‘ I will stay here . ’ |
| 17 | She opened her mouth and closed it again and gave me a hard look . |
| 18 | The cop gave me a hard look and moved off . |
| 19 | He gave me a sour look and growled , ‘ The whole thing 's too short , from the head down ! ’ |
| 20 | She gave me a prissy look . |
| 21 | He gave me a sideways look that was curiously disconcerting , and went to the door . |
| 22 | Greenslade gave me a sideways look . |
| 23 | After two fumbled attempts Dostoevsky lands with a leap upon ‘ Il faut être prêt , voyez-vous ’ — he gave me a meaningful look — ‘ chague moment — they may come and take me , and phew ! — a man has disappeared ! ’ |
| 24 | He turned his head and gave me a direct look . |
| 25 | She gave me a quick look , softened by a little smile . |
| 26 | He gave me a quick look to check that I was really there , and an even quicker look round the garden to see if there were any other responsible local citizens around to witness this triumphant affirmation of an afterlife . |
| 27 | And she gave me a significant look . |
| 28 | She gave me a puzzled look . |
| 29 | The fellow gave me a world-weary look and shook his head . |
| 30 | She shot me a demonic look , emphasized by a smile of outrageous malice . |