Example sentences of "she [vb mod] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may look back with longing to the coffee-breaks and lunch hours she used to share with colleagues at work , which may seem in retrospect to have been so full of interest- and best of all , laughter , forgetting any strains that existed in her job . |
| 2 | Existence with Paul was what she must look forward to ; reading his scripts , bearing his children . |
| 3 | She must look quite a sight . |
| 4 | If she kept working on it , a week from now , she might look even better . |
| 5 | She 'll look as smart as the rest when she enters the ring on Paddock Sportsline just before noon today in front of an almost empty arena . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll look as alive as you or me , once we 've packed her and made up her face , ’ the embalmer reassured him again . |
| 7 | Whichever way she 'll look much the same . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'll look very drab , ’ was all she said . |
| 9 | She could look neither at Dr Neil , nor at the tasteless harpy who was tormenting him with her tactlessness . |
| 10 | If she married one of them she could look forward to a life of uncertainty , warfare , shortages , assassinations , massacres and tragedy . |
| 11 | She only wished she could look forward to that day — instead , she realised , aching inside at the prospect , she was dreading it . |
| 12 | That she could look up at men rather than over or down at them . |
| 13 | Here was a man she could look up to , a man she should like immensely — if she did n't have so many reasons to dislike him ! |
| 14 | Paige eased away so that she could look up . |
| 15 | She could look down over the rail into a walled sunken courtyard belonging to the basement flat , a brick-lined niche with some white cast-iron garden furniture and some shrubs in open barrels . |
| 16 | She raised herself on one elbow , so that she could look down on his face . |
| 17 | He looked at her searchingly , then stopped and led the way across the rabbit-nibbled turf to a point where she could look down on the inlet he called Seal Haven . |
| 18 | She could look back down on her twenty-two years and see a tall handsome man , and she recalled his words a few minutes ago , ‘ Sorrow does n't last . ’ |
| 19 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
| 20 | She hoisted her umbrella to ward off the light drizzle that had started to fall , gave me a couple of twenty-pound notes , said she 'd look forward to seeing me on Friday , kissed my cheek , then went off to do her shopping . |
| 21 | Then a lifeguard , the sun glinting in the blonde hairs of his chest , would loom above her , his shadow falling across her bare chest , and she 'd look up , one hand shading her eyes … |
| 22 | ‘ I think she 'd look very pretty . ’ |
| 23 | She would look forward to changing her address , she decided . |
| 24 | I half hoped she would look up and wave , though of course the idea was ridiculous . |
| 25 | But she would look rather a fool if it did turn out to be only one of the children from the village . |
| 26 | All agreed that she would look best in a smart suit . |
| 27 | Suitably robed — the designer had already shown him drawings of an onion-shaped headpiece and a collar of gold — she would look more sphinx-like than most , certainly more exotic than Babs Osborne whose voice was pitched a little too high and whose features were a little too Frinton-on-Sea to suggest the perfect Cleopatra . |
| 28 | Whenever she came to the house with Peg she would look about with solemn curiosity , and her blue eyes dominated her wan little face . |
| 29 | Diana had said she would look in to say hello to give them a morale boost , but when one of her staff saw the route she had to take to get there they said she could not possibly go . |
| 30 | She would look out over the scenery and think serene thoughts , and before too long Rourke Deveraugh would be nothing more than a hazy memory , a burr on the skin that was shaken off and trampled underfoot . |