Example sentences of "looked [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm meeting Lucy off the train later on anyway , and if you want to know the truth ’ — he looked about him with rolling eyes — ‘ I 'm completely pissed off with the whole of this bloody set-up . |
| 2 | Robbie felt her cheeks flush scarlet and she looked about her in angry embarrassment . |
| 3 | He was supported by a most devoted wife who looked after him for many years until , late in his life , he rejected and abandoned her for a younger woman . |
| 4 | At that time you had to stay with your tutor constable who looked after you for twelve weeks . |
| 5 | ‘ Bore da , miss , what can I get you ? ’ he asked pleasantly and his blue eyes looked into hers with obvious admiration . |
| 6 | Sabine looked round her with eager curiosity , her gaze lingering on one large central tapestry . |
| 7 | Katherine looked round her in some confusion . |
| 8 | I looked toward him for some answer to my curiosity but his eyes were expressionless . |
| 9 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 10 | The King exerted his influence , not just because forty or fifty Members of Parliament held government posts , but because others in the House of Commons looked to him for financial help in fighting elections , or they looked to him for contracts , pensions , and favours for friends . |
| 11 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 12 | For this reason , the seventeenth century looked on it with varying degrees of embarrassed caution and suspicion . |
| 13 | He looked at her through narrowed eyes , then he stood up . |
| 14 | Rourke looked at her through narrowed eyes . |
| 15 | Father McCormack looked at her through shrewd eyes . |
| 16 | He looked at her at that , his eyes almost silvery in the semi-darkness . |
| 17 | He looked at her for several interminable seconds . |
| 18 | The man at her side wore sea boots and a thick white sweater , and he looked at her with one eyebrow raised , a small , teasing smile lifting the corners of his mouth . |
| 19 | Ryker looked at her with sheer hatred . |
| 20 | He looked at her with new respect , the way they always did when she said something like that . |
| 21 | Diana was now more mature and relaxed and her sisters ' friends looked at her with new eyes . |
| 22 | She realized that everyone looked at her with new eyes , handling her like a precious piece of porcelain to be admired but not touched . |
| 23 | He looked at her with such incredulity that she turned away . |
| 24 | Roman sat on a corner of her desk and looked at her with such a grave expression that she cried out in alarm . |
| 25 | Piers abandoned his efforts with the meal and looked at her with raised eyebrows . |
| 26 | Both of them looked at her with apparent concern but Kelly knew with utter certainty that they were together in this . |
| 27 | He looked at her with sardonic amusement which deepened when she quickly looked away . |
| 28 | Now Wolff looked at her with sardonic amusement . |
| 29 | He did not want to be caught at all , and although Mildred told him where they were going and tried to soothe him , he struggled madly and looked at her with great suspicion . |
| 30 | Morley looked at her with genuine concern . |