Example sentences of "looked at [pos pn] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shrugged , looked at her long fingers , flexed them . |
| 2 | Polly looked at her scribbled notes , then shrugged . |
| 3 | But as he looked at her innocent lips , he thought this pure child of nature could only have picked up the question from others . |
| 4 | He looked at her delicate hands and pale face . |
| 5 | As you can probably tell from my figure , ’ and she looked at her plump legs with satisfaction , ‘ I like my food ! ’ |
| 6 | Karen looked at her own hands . |
| 7 | What the Russians thought of their rough but kindly guide it is impossible to say ; but he grinned , and exclaimed in amazement as he tried in vain , with a stumpy pencil to get a list of their names , and then sympathetically remarked , as he looked at their wan faces , ‘ There is no wonder at the chaps being ill ; even their names is all coughs and sneezes ’ . |
| 8 | No longer were they able to allow for unforeseen problems so they looked at their traditional contracts for any opportunity for reimbursement of additional costs . |
| 9 | Jack looked at their terrified eyes and then down at the computer screen . |
| 10 | They both looked at their younger brothers and sisters , who stared blankly back . |
| 11 | He looked at their sceptical faces as if seeking support . |
| 12 | And if you went to General Accident and looked at their actuarial tables , they might be slightly different to other groups , but in that sense |
| 13 | Dr John Foley sat at the head of the table , and looked at his five sons . |
| 14 | And when the messenger had made his reverence and limped out from the presence , Henry turned his head a little , and looked at his closest confidants , but obliquely , out of the corner of a sunken eye , and dismissed them , too . |
| 15 | He looked at his two friends , smiling broadly . |
| 16 | He was not a happy man , and the stern set of his jaw , and the way he hardly ever looked at his two operatives , made Ray Doyle realise that the fat was really in the fire this time . |
| 17 | Chesarynth looked at his sybaritic features and decided his laziness had made him prefer fleshly pleasures to work . |
| 18 | He examined his own hands , looked at his own feet , touched his own face , rubbed his own tongue against his own teeth , breathed in , breathed out . |
| 19 | The pathologist looked at his own hands and stripped off his surgical gloves , dropping them into a plastic bag . |
| 20 | Alyssia looked at his expressive hands , the long , clever fingers , and she wondered how well he really knew this woman . |
| 21 | I looked at his little hands , counted his fingers and wondered how perfect he was . |
| 22 | Michael , waiting at the top , was silently cursing his father as he looked at his younger brothers ' little faces . |
| 23 | I looked at our fellow passengers . |
| 24 | Thankfully , they just smiled , nodded , looked at our English number-plates , and went on their way . |
| 25 | In girls ' work , for example , we began to learn from our experiences and commit ourselves to ensuring that facilities were genuinely available also to Jewish young women — that we tackled anti-Semitism ; that young women with disabilities were not excluded , and that we looked at our oppressive attitudes to disability and the institutions in which these were enshrined . |
| 26 | I looked at my poor troopers . |
| 27 | At the baker 's I offered to exchange my leather gloves for a small cake , but the baker 's wife looked at my dirty clothes and said , ‘ I 'm sorry , but how do I know you have n't stolen them ? ’ |
| 28 | I looked at my lovely children and realised the suffering I had put them through . |
| 29 | Cath Carroll looked at my hole-filled jeans and nascent dreads and tittered . |