Example sentences of "he looked [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked imploringly at Connors , but it 's no use pleading with a man who just had a machine gun go off in his face . |
| 2 | Just now he looked decidedly anxious . |
| 3 | He looked sternly at Herr Müller who had an odd expression . |
| 4 | ‘ May I still have the interview with you which you promised ? ’ she asked straight out — and thought for a few seconds , as he looked sternly at her , that she had blown it , and that he had taken the strongest exception to her reminding him of his promise . |
| 5 | He looked automatically , by association , at his watch . |
| 6 | He looked automatically at Alfred . |
| 7 | When he spoke he looked ahead , only occasionally glancing at Huy , though whether for approval or in anticipation of an interruption , Huy could not tell . |
| 8 | He looked ahead to where the road curved openly up to the left , free road ahead , that 's where he was going up on that open road ahead with this great sense of power behind his eyes , behind his shoulders , in his thighs . |
| 9 | ‘ And as I put one leg out of the door , he looked slightly taken aback , because he could see that my leg was bare . |
| 10 | He was thirty now , he knew , but he looked slightly older . |
| 11 | He looked slightly past them as if they had already been and gone . |
| 12 | He looked slightly embarrassed and did not deny that he had . |
| 13 | He looked slightly embarrassed and made no answering comment . |
| 14 | He looked slightly amused as he said : ‘ I am not owed any explanations , this is your house . ’ |
| 15 | Maria stared at him standing there , discovering that he looked slightly drawn , while there was a hotness to his eyes now , as if fever or perhaps simply fatigue afflicted him . |
| 16 | He looked slightly abstracted ; and I noticed for the first time that his habit of addressing remarks with head bowed — often appearing to contemplate the floor or the ‘ figure in the carpet ’ — had begun to bring about that slight spinal curvature which became accentuated later in life though not without adding to his dignity of bearing . |
| 17 | He looked slightly uneasy . |
| 18 | He looked forward to working with him . |
| 19 | He looked forward to the development of the country |
| 20 | He looked forward to rare trips through the city in a dirty truck that stank of oil and pig-swill , the occasional shared chore , the songs , the rough companionship . |
| 21 | He would go far , this young man , Mr Bullins considered , and he looked forward to reading of his progress once he left Oxford . |
| 22 | He looked forward to the promised visit of young van Rappard . |
| 23 | He looked forward to this drink , the first of the day , with a sensuous desire . |
| 24 | He looked forward to the end of his shift . |
| 25 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 26 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 27 | He wore a grim expression , not showing the elation with which he looked forward to killing President Sam , and taking over as ruler of his country . |
| 28 | There were , however , some lusty singers among his parishioners , and he looked forward to the time when it might prove possible to fill the chancel with an unsurpliced choir . |
| 29 | He looked forward to practising it himself on others in due course . |
| 30 | However the Committee had felt that the reduced scheme was still worthwhile and he looked forward to the Museum opening in the near future . |