Example sentences of "and [pers pn] look [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Feldwebel had not moved and I looked all the way up his black leather jack-boots and the thin grey greatcoat with its cheap tin buttons looking as if they had come out of a Christmas pudding before I noticed that his eyes were slightly open and that he was watching me with an uncle 's amusement . |
| 2 | And I looked right , that was the trouble . |
| 3 | The girls started to arrive and I looked busy with a pile of papers so that I would n't have to talk to them . |
| 4 | I went down to seven stone something and I looked hellish . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've seen the ‘ rushes ’ and I look hideous — it is n't glamorous when you 're really crying . |
| 6 | and I try to be serious on some and I look miserable . |
| 7 | My lack of means is extreme , granted , and I look bad , skin white , mouth chapped , body apparently even shorter than usual , eye roaming and I daresay a bit fretful , trousers in bad shape , attention astray for a book lying around to pinch or even an old magazine , since I sold a few volumes I should now like to have kept , in exchange for a slug of what turned out to be the world 's nastiest though cheapest whiskey . |
| 8 | I am underweight and I look underweight , but still I ca n't eat normally — that is , eat enough to gain weight . |
| 9 | ‘ So I watched you for a while , and when you saw me watching , and you looked nervous , as though you thought me a criminal , about to steal all the stock , it amused me to tease you , try and discover why Donal thought you special . |
| 10 | James Bond fantasies , you know , when things just appear and you 're just sophisticated and your hair 's in a flip and you look great and you get on your private jet . |
| 11 | If you do a photo session and you look ridiculous , it 's just one day , you move on . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm fine , and you look beautiful , ’ he whispered in her ear , ignoring Stephen 's irritated voice as he interrupted . |
| 13 | ‘ And you look fine now , ’ she said , pushing on . |
| 14 | ‘ My God you 're cold , ’ he said to Gentle , ‘ and you look wretched . |
| 15 | The sun 's gone in , and you look cold . |
| 16 | The flesh under her chin sagged as the fat disappeared but after just 5 months of stretching her lower jaw over her front teeth 5 times a day , her neck toned up magnificently and she looked 10 years younger ! |
| 17 | Her face was red , and she looked tired and angry . |
| 18 | She was late , as she always was , and they only had about an hour and a half to talk before she had to go , and he was nervous and she looked tired though still beautiful in bright red cords , Arran jumper and tattily magnificent fur coat . |
| 19 | And she looked upset . |
| 20 | And she looked sixteen . |
| 21 | Something had happened to her and she looked uneasy , vaguely disturbed by the memory . |
| 22 | She wore bright clothes , did her hair differently , and she looked taller and thinner . |
| 23 | Her white silk jacket and trousers were of a masculine cut and she looked androgynous and faintly degenerate — an irresistible combination to the sexually confused . |
| 24 | Within seconds his eyes fluttered open , and she looked deep into those beloved blue depths . |
| 25 | Her eyes widened and she looked angry . |
| 26 | Then she asked why I was laughing again , and I said that that was n't what had happened , and she looked angry , and I had a shower . |
| 27 | When Christine came on to the stage , her face was white and she looked afraid . |
| 28 | And she looked dreadful . |
| 29 | Her long , straight hair was tied back in a bow , and she looked younger and more approachable . |
| 30 | The word was alien to her and she looked doubtful . |