Example sentences of "as he looked [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was unusual in this case was that even in his great excitement he still carried the photographs of Koko and pointed to them repeatedly as he looked toward the teacher , who nodded and said ‘ Yes ’ to Sherman . |
| 2 | As he looked across the now peaceful Green , he found it was surprisingly easy to imagine it filled with men and women in uniform fighting for a cause they truly believed in . |
| 3 | He knew he would do it all again , because as he looked across the manicured lawns , the buildings shrouded now in darkness but soon to be brilliant in the blazing sunlight , the scene embodied all his dreams . |
| 4 | The glinting dark gaze was cool , but quizzical as he looked across the office . |
| 5 | Forster frowned as he looked through his spy hole . |
| 6 | He did n't say a thing as he looked through them . |
| 7 | Whitlock asked as he looked over the railing at the water fifty feet below him . |
| 8 | My boss stood very still as he looked over the side of the pen at the little animal . |
| 9 | Anyway , he added to himself , as he looked with pity at the little boy , it was asking for trouble , giving him such a daft name . |
| 10 | As he looked to be of West Indian extraction , Amiss thought they might have a sensible chat about cricket . |
| 11 | Keeping himself hidden , Philip watched him as he looked for another stone . |
| 12 | On his way back with the water , he got lost on detour around a fallen tree , and as he looked for his way through the woods , he heard a voice ask from the underbrush , ‘ Have you anything to drink ? ’ |
| 13 | As he looked at her , his face closed over with a faintly embarrassed incredulity . |
| 14 | We got two Grieg classics — Spring and I Love You — and then the Prokofiev , a delight with its roaming tonalities , its incisive sketches and its shafts of psychological insight ( like the thrilling high speeded-up waltz , with music-box runs all over the place , that played in the duckling 's mind as he looked at his reflection and found he was a swan ) . |
| 15 | As he looked at them walk away , something hard in him revolted and he cried inside himself . |
| 16 | Joe was not smiling as he looked at her . |
| 17 | Then the man spoke his first word in a very long time as he looked at Beth panting away . |
| 18 | Words with which he hoped to defend himself against imagined conspiracies , actual confession , real Guilts , and words that would too explicitly , too protestingly deny too much of the substance of his own present thoughts as he looked at the girl and his own former behaviour with many , many more of her kind . |
| 19 | As he looked at her , preparing to bargain all over again , there was a splat ! of sparks from the light , a high-pitched sizzle , and then darkness . |
| 20 | The vicious force which was now her essence and to which she gave the name of hatred ( only this was too narrow and too petty a name to describe it ) was directed upon Jack : Jack on whom daily , as he looked at her sometimes so anxiously , so humbly , she smiled the smile of reassurance and of calm . |
| 21 | Agnes found herself surprised at the change in the gentleman 's voice as he looked at her father and said , ‘ Oh , yes , yes . |
| 22 | Yanto felt a tinge of sadness as he looked at the sign . |
| 23 | His heavily lined mahogany coloured face was unsmiling as he looked at them . |
| 24 | He felt foolish as he looked at Molly who was on all fours amongst the pine needles looking at him in open mouthed amazement . |
| 25 | ‘ Eejits , ’ he said quietly , as he looked at the bantams roosting on a low perch . |
| 26 | ‘ How lovely she is , ’ he thought for the thousandth time , as he looked at her fondly . |
| 27 | She observed him without shame as he looked at every part of her . |
| 28 | As he looked at her , slumped awkwardly in sleep , he tried without success to put his finger on that indefinable something which made this girl so totally English . |
| 29 | You know — ’ He pulled in his chin as he looked at her before continuing , ‘ It 's odd , but none of the other girls I 've brought to the house over the years have seemed to arouse your animosity . |
| 30 | Ben was grinning now as he looked at Millie , saying , ‘ Perhaps they 're goin' to adopt you . ’ |