Example sentences of "[vb past] look " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | Miguel promised to look after me for a year while I got some business experience before going to university . ’ |
| 32 | Mr Mellor , who was handed a dossier on the Darlington case during a lunch at Teesside airport , promised to look into it . |
| 33 | The leader of the Commons , Tony Newton , promised to look into the issue . |
| 34 | The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive promised to look into the hold-ups . |
| 35 | Nellie bent to look out of the window , parting the curtain with one hand . |
| 36 | Dermot could n't resist a sly peak out of the window too , as the women bent to look . |
| 37 | He bent to look at the fastening , then picked up one of the white stones and struck ; the glass tinkled thinly , a horrible sound . |
| 38 | He came forward into the room to stand close to her and bent to look into her face . |
| 39 | She would have been quite content simply to stare at the house for hours , and she was still sitting there when Alain opened her door and bent to look in at her . |
| 40 | ‘ You like putting cards on the table , ’ he mocked , standing very close , his dark head bent to look directly into her eyes . |
| 41 | I said and you all used to look at him as if he was bloody king |
| 42 | When the Colonel was alive , he always took me shooting with him , and I helped look after his guns . |
| 43 | He turned and let his eyes lock with the laird 's , the minister 's , and the factor 's , each one in turn , while they stared back and tried to look perfectly blank . |
| 44 | He reached across the table and took her hand , which was a nuisance ; he would notice if she tried to look at her watch . |
| 45 | I hesitated for a moment on the stairs , turned round and tried to look at some of them , to see if there was a familiar face , a suspicious or suspecting face , a face I could place , a face that could … |
| 46 | He took it away and tried to look normal but he felt awful . |
| 47 | When we were dressing up kids , I always tried to look elegant , classy , sexy or feminine , whereas she dressed more how she wanted in weird and wacky costumes , like a cowboy outfit . |
| 48 | You ate what you were given and tried to look as if you could n't really bear to think about food . |
| 49 | He borrowed a new T-shirt from Jazz and tried to look a bit cleaner after his night in the graveyard potting shed , determined to keep out of trouble till after the competition . |
| 50 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 51 | My stomach was moving with excitement but I tried to look bored . |
| 52 | He tried to look me in the eye , Say |
| 53 | I did n't want to hurt their feelings , having been brought up to be polite , so I tried to look happy and muttered something about Helen playing the piano very well . |
| 54 | So we tried to look deeper , particularly for a way of applying our money where its unique lack of strings could help add most the eminent scientists on the Venture Research Advisory Council — the Chairman Sir James Menter , Sir Rex Richards , Sir Hans Kornberg and Professor John Cadogan — contributed their expertise to this slow painstaking process as did my colleagues in the Unit . |
| 55 | I tried to look at the scenery . |
| 56 | I was just making conversation , ’ she answered with dignity ; and he tried to look chastened . |
| 57 | William Bird tried to look bland and encouraging as the woman leaned across the desk towards him , but an onslaught of speculation and comment from the Leicester ladies had left him feeling somewhat shell-shocked . |
| 58 | In her day , Mrs Thatcher tried to look like a normal human being and went shopping . |
| 59 | This young London , happy tonight to be among its own kind , sometimes dangled a polythene bottle of cider by the neck , laughed at itself for acting crazy on the dancefloor , and now and again tried to look thick , or stoned . |
| 60 | I tried to look straight ahead until I reached the top , then I entered our attic room and stood there as my eyes accustomed themselves to the dim light . |