Example sentences of "[adv] as [pers pn] look [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had even avoided the swimming-pool , for , much as she looked forward to and enjoyed her evening dips , she did n't want to give him any further opportunity to seek her company . |
| 2 | The answer was going to be that er , just as we look back on Darwin and do n't notice his Lamarckism , in , in a sense , Darwin was n't as Darwinian as we might now think , so we 've probably got a picture of Freud which is , er , more Freudian as it were , than Freud really was . |
| 3 | His thumb caressed her arm absently as he looked down at her , and the smile left a lingering warmth in his eyes . |
| 4 | As soon as he looked out of the window on the morning after he arrived ( he tells them ) and saw what the place was like , he realized that it was based on the tutorial system . |
| 5 | However , this sensation evaporated as soon as I looked out of the window , when I realized how imprisoned I was by my ignorance , which Aisha seized upon , exploiting the fact that I did n't know how to flush the toilet , work the shower , turn on the oven or boil the electric kettle to make tea , and that I could n't understand what her older child or her next-door neighbour said . |
| 6 | Then he seemed to reach a decision , his night-dark eyes more compelling than ever as he looked back at her . |
| 7 | He regarded the men beneath him impassively , his eyes flicking back and forth as they looked up at him . |
| 8 | Now as she looked up at Bob Collins , the smile left her face . |
| 9 | Duvall was holding the gun now as he looked down at him , breathing heavily . |
| 10 | But even as she looked back at him , hating him , loathing him , a new thought suddenly popped into her head . |
| 11 | He shook his head wonderingly as he looked down at her . |
| 12 | He said softly as he looked up at a gull wheeling above coral roofs : ‘ Perhaps you would care to tell me instead where you have been since yesterday morning , and what has happened to you ? ’ |
| 13 | The nun sighed heavily as she looked back at her sixth-year class , heads bent over their composition books all intent on their essay , ‘ The Evils of Emigration ’ . |
| 14 | Guido shook his head slowly as he looked back at her . |
| 15 | And his smile , appearing slowly as he looked down at us , gleamed with a whiteness that almost hurt . |
| 16 | She smiled nervously as she looked back at him and seemed about to say something , then , instead , leaned forward to kiss him . |
| 17 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |