Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] his [noun] [conj] look " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scrambled down from his chair and looked hopefully at Nick , and when he said , ‘ Do you mean you want us to come and help milk the cow ? ’ |
| 2 | The trainer sat up in his chair and looked about the table as if searching for something to throw at her . |
| 3 | He got up in his night-shirt and looked incredulously out at the twigs of the stately chestnut tree in front of the castle . |
| 4 | He took some cyclostyled papers out of his pocket and looked at them . |
| 5 | He totted up the figures night after night , and ‘ he would take that piece of paper out of his pocket and look at it again and again ’ . |
| 6 | He pushed his handkerchief back into his pocket and looked across at his deputy , Sergei Kolchinsky , a Russian in his early fifties who had become an invaluable member of the team since joining UNACO from the KGB four years earlier . |
| 7 | He sat back in his pew and looked around the church which the indefatigable ladies of the WI had transformed with flowers and holly sprays . |
| 8 | ‘ So what have you been doing with yourself for the last five years ? ’ he asked , leaning back in his chair and looking quizzically at her . |
| 9 | Then the older man lay back in his chair and looked at Dorian with half-closed eyes . |
| 10 | Certainly , as he leaned back in his chair and looked across at her , there was no sign of coolness in the dark eyes . |
| 11 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 12 | When he was full he leaned back on his haunches and looked at the mess of blood and flesh . |
| 13 | General ‘ Little Mac ’ McLellan sat back on his horse and looked up at the sky . |
| 14 | Hrun leaned his head back on his hands and looked at the ceiling , whistling tunelessly . |
| 15 | He leaned back on his heels and looked at Willie . |
| 16 | He stopped packing rucsacs on to his sledge and looked . |
| 17 | ‘ Hold on to that bloody cider , ’ Billy yelled Yanto twisted around on his seat and looked at Billy . |
| 18 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |