Example sentences of "turn [adv] and look " in BNC.
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| 1 | A gust of wind throws rain against the window and shakes the frame ; it 's loud and surprising and I flinch but he just turns slowly and looks out into the darkness with what could almost be contempt before laughing and putting an arm round my shoulder and suggesting we have another drink . |
| 2 | Then poor Pamela must be turned off and looked upon as a vile abandoned creature , and everybody would despise her , and justly too , Mrs. Jervis . |
| 3 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 4 | She turned slowly and looked at the figure in the chair . |
| 5 | Much later , it seemed , she awoke and when she turned over and looked towards where the chanting had come from the African men and women had eaten and were packing away and decamping . |
| 6 | She turned over and looked at the illuminated dial of her alarm clock . |
| 7 | She turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 8 | Jazzbeaux turned away and looked out of the window . |
| 9 | ‘ Luke will , ’ Anna said unfairly , turning away and looking at her beautifully dug earth , and thinking how much she would just like to lie down on it and sleep . |
| 10 | Rohmer turned quickly and looked in Jimmy 's direction . |
| 11 | They turned quickly and looked back at the city . |
| 12 | He stared wide-eyed , then turned aside and looked disdainful while the grizzled , worn features of Duran were screwed up to hide his frustration . |
| 13 | Startled faces turned as they sang , then turned back and looked at the pulpit . |
| 14 | Then they turned back and looked at me . |
| 15 | Her father turned back and looked at her . |
| 16 | Agnes turned now and looked in the mirror again , and she really could n't believe what she saw . |
| 17 | She turned now and looked at her mother , adding , ‘ He … he was coming to see you at Christmas . ’ |
| 18 | Then he turned around and looked and there was a shop cabinet . |
| 19 | He turned around and looked down into a sea of human faces , below him . |
| 20 | It 's sad , you know ’ — she turned about and looked at Peggy ‘ It is sad when a mother outshines a daughter , and aims to do it to the extent of trying to fascinate her son-in-law . |
| 21 | And they hung about and hung about and then they came across here , looked at the board and they kept turning round and looking where I was . |
| 22 | The man turned round and looked at Robyn with startled eyes . |
| 23 | Then she turned round and looked Alex Mair in the face . |
| 24 | She turned round and looked at the brass-dialled clock sitting starkly on a red brick wall to the side of them and added , ‘ Only half-past eight . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Oliver , ’ I said , and he turned round and looked really surprised . |
| 26 | He turned round and looked at the sea of faces . |
| 27 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 28 | I turned round and looked at him , wondering why he was bothering with such an easy question . |
| 29 | She turned round and looked at them . |
| 30 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |