Example sentences of "[pron] study [pron] " in BNC.

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1 So , surrounded with objects , photographs in books , cuttings from magazines etc , I studied them to see if there was anything which would be interesting translated into knitting .
2 Seen in this light , and in the light of what he had now told me , I studied him afresh .
3 But as I studied him any aggressive feelings I may have harboured evaporated quickly .
4 Benjamin just stared fascinated and I studied him rather than the condemned man for , as I have remarked before , Benjamin had a horror of public executions .
5 The three corpses I studied there had the noose placed in the same spot .
6 I studied his work at university , ’ she replied , thinking that the story of a man condemned to death for murder after failing to show proper grief at his mother 's funeral was not the happiest choice in the present circumstances .
7 I studied his arguments at great length over the weekend and I have come to the conclusion that much of the hon. Gentleman 's argument is extremely valid and needs a great deal of further consideration .
8 This time I studied it in good sunlight , because some of the colours are so dim or so dark that one can hardly see what the pattern is all about .
9 ‘ It is since that I studied it , ’ said Greg .
10 I studied it carefully this monring , better to understand what is involved .
11 I studied my gardening books .
12 I was born in Madrid — that 's where I studied my medicine .
13 She studies herself ; I study her back .
14 Mona Doyle , president of Consumer Network Inc in Philadelphia which studies our food habits , has a philosophical point of some interest .
15 Yu studied me an filmed me — remember
16 For several seconds , as their gazes met and held , she was disturbingly aware of the strong , sun-bronzed column of his throat , the startlingly blue gaze which studied her with an intensity so vibrantly sexual that it almost took her breath away before he turned his attention to the American couple .
17 A favoured saying amongst biologists is that for any biological question god has created an ideal organism in which to study it .
18 In Britain there is a large and welcome constituency for courses which study his writing .
19 The insider who studies his own society is really the ‘ anthropologist at home ’ and he can not move away .
20 The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time .
21 For another two seconds she studies me .
22 She studies herself ; I study her back .
23 He recognized that they were ‘ enriching ’ for the school students and undergraduates who studied them .
24 who studied her in gaol , then went back home and did
25 That Emilia thought her a mere child revealed how little she understood ; but then Louisa herself had only limited comprehension of what remained dark and unspoken in this woman who studied her , almost coldly , summoning resolve .
26 He handed the paper to Hawkins , who studied it for a moment , then said : ‘ I know those places marked with an asterisk .
27 She studied him objectively , as one of her team , and saw a quite reasonably fit , bright boy , hard with nights of climbing over factory walls and across their roofs and being chased by securicor men , quick-witted out of habit , used to an uncomfortable life .
28 She studied him a moment , laying her hand softly on his chest , feeling the soft rise and fall of his breath , then gently covered the soft fold of his spent manhood .
29 She studied him a moment , then went across and bent down , recovering the pay-key .
30 She studied him a moment , then nodded .
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