Example sentences of "my [noun] look [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd tried not to make my apartment look too intimidating . |
| 2 | My mum looked vaguely hurt . |
| 3 | My Mum looked down at me and I could tell she was just about to cry . |
| 4 | ‘ My legs looked very good . |
| 5 | In fact my gynaecologist looked up the other day and said , ‘ Dame Edna , when will you stop giving ? ’ |
| 6 | My room looks out over a croquet lawn , at the end of which is a pond thickly planted with papyrus — the eponymous plant always mentioned by school teachers in any history of written language — in which , I know with certainty , all hell will break loose as dusk falls . |
| 7 | I floated on my back looking up at the puffs of white cloud dotted about the blue sky . |
| 8 | Actually , it could have been ‘ See , you ! ’ — and I 've even told people since that it was ‘ See you , Jimmy ’ — but then and there , lying flat on my back looking up at Shifty-Eyes and still holding his foot , all I really registered was that the ‘ you ’ came out as just ‘ U ’ . |
| 9 | And the great thing was , on paper , my dick looked really impressive . |
| 10 | My toilet looks much nicer now . |
| 11 | My father looked round , startled . |
| 12 | My father looked really ghostly in the light from the street , and for a moment I found myself thinking : He is a ghost . |
| 13 | My aunt looked up the records and told me about her . |
| 14 | The fact that I had never seen my aunt looking so elegant added to my impression that I was imagining this . |
| 15 | I have never in my life looked forward to starting a diet , but by the end of my holiday I could n't wait to get back on it to maintain my slimmer figure ( with every other diet I have put weight back on and more ! ) . |
| 16 | I do n't live my life looking up to other people , setting my life on the example of others , yeah fair enough |
| 17 | while my daughter looks on , |
| 18 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 19 | But I thought , sitting there on the side of my bed looking out over the trash-filled street with the sound of the trucks grinding and roaring down the thoroughfare , that He must be something like the sun rising out of the ocean on a cloudless day . |
| 20 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 21 | My dad looked back at me . |
| 22 | ‘ My dad looks very like me , he has everything the same as me — even the same hair and freckles all over his face . |
| 23 | My master looked nervously at the Earl of Angus who had hardly moved except to gulp noisily from a goblet of wine . |
| 24 | My master looked up , his face as hard as stone , the skin drawn tight . |
| 25 | My master looked quite worried . |
| 26 | My Cid looked back and saw Alvar Salvadores beside him , and he said , go now , take two hundred horse , and sally upon yonder Moors who are entering the gardens ; let Doña Ximena and her daughters see the good will you have to serve them . |
| 27 | I sat for an hour in my roomette looking out at the unvarying scenery and trying to imagine anything else that Filmer might have paid to have done . |
| 28 | Our Margaret says our my mam lo I look like my mam looks there . |
| 29 | My mother looked up at him as he climbed down . |
| 30 | My mother looked up from the sewing machine . |