Example sentences of "when [pers pn] look [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that , you see I was going to send off for a pair of gloves cos I ca n't find my thermal , but when I looked on and saw all the bits and bobs of paper that come , there was n't erm , little slip you get with a pound off , for postage and packing , which I 've been getting recently have n't you ? for erm |
| 2 | Once when I looked up Kāli was nowhere in sight . |
| 3 | ‘ When I looked up I was covered in blood . |
| 4 | When I looked up I saw it was coming from two smartly dressed men on the long bench-seat opposite . |
| 5 | When I looked up there was this policeman and said : ‘ Look , look , that 's me ! ’ |
| 6 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 7 | But when I looked up , I saw , to my great astonishment , a large island in the sky , between me and the sun . |
| 8 | I pushed them away with a shudder , but when I looked up I saw , lying on a shelf opposite , an infant or Cupid carved in black marble . |
| 9 | But when I looked up and saw you , all I could think of was holding you , kissing you — ’ |
| 10 | When I looked up into the mirror again , he was moving , crawling towards something behind him . |
| 11 | When I looked up , cradling the gun and gasping , my backside sunk in sand , I could n't see the rabbit . |
| 12 | But when I looked up I saw I was underneath a car . |
| 13 | But when I looked round , there he was , half-way towards me with the knife in his right hand ! |
| 14 | When I looked round he was standing there with his mouth open , trying to say something . |
| 15 | ‘ When I looked round you 'd gone . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Ana screamed and when I looked round you were n't there at all . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I pushed the pram to the top of the street I was afraid they were following me but when I looked round there was nobody there so I just ran to my mum 's . ’ |
| 18 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 19 | But when I looked over those I had kept , I decided I could not do so . |
| 20 | While I was lying there staring at the ceiling counting the number of tiles I heard a girl going ‘ ouch , ouch that hurts ’ , when I looked over she was having difficulty with the needle going in and I noticed she was barely gripping the nice bit of perspex . |
| 21 | When I looked back I could no longer see the clearing . |
| 22 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 23 | Though the landscape was flat , it seemed , both visually and from the effort it was taking to move the wheelbarrow , that I was continually walking up a hill , but when I looked back , it was as if I had just walked down one . |
| 24 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 25 | When I looked back I realized it was because of a hurt from when I was younger-I had protruding teeth and was the only child in my school at the time to wear braces . |
| 26 | I 'd passed that fella on the road an' when I looked back she was talking to him ; then when I turned the cart into the alley the next minute , she was flying past , almost throwing the child at me . |
| 27 | " Hey , " somebody shouted , and when I looked back , it was the tenant of the flat I 'd just knocked at . |
| 28 | When I looked back that was dreadful . |
| 29 | When I looked back again , just before the trees hid the house , he had disappeared . |
| 30 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |