Example sentences of "[subord] i looked [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I held it , I knew if I looked over to the bed he 'd be there , hands behind his head , stealing , this time , an image of his widow . |
| 2 | When I looked up into the mirror again , he was moving , crawling towards something behind him . |
| 3 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 4 | I went on further , and their lightness and gleam had gone when I looked back for the last time . |
| 5 | When I looked back to the Mimosa there was no sign of him , but the door was open . |
| 6 | Yes well the , the question is that I notice in the assets that investments at cost were twenty five million , the present market value is twenty eight million , indeed since that 's been written it may even be more and when I looked down to the other side of the accounts , I noticed interest on capital of twelve hundred and four pounds and I wonder where the interest from the twenty eight million has gone to . |
| 7 | I woke early , and when I looked out of the window , I saw two men examining our boat , but I decided not to wake Herbert or Startop , who needed their rest after rowing all the previous day . |
| 8 | We finished our meal in silence , and when I looked out of the window , all I could see was darkness and snow . |
| 9 | When I looked out of the window and saw you creeping through the garden , I thought I 'd better come down and find out what you were up to . ’ |
| 10 | Things seemed quiet enough , but it was an uneasy calm and in the late afternoon , there was a crump of a bomb and when I looked out of the window I saw a black pall of smoke in the distance . |
| 11 | I knew his name , and murmured it as I looked on from the supply hut , with my schnapps and my toilet paper : ‘ Uncle Pepi ’ . |
| 12 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 13 | I felt sure that if Mr Reed had lived he would have treated me kindly , and now , as I looked round at the dark furniture and the walls in shadow , I began to fear that his ghost might come back to punish his wife for not keeping her promise . |
| 14 | As I looked round in the pale dawn light , a piece of paper caught my eye . |
| 15 | I felt a lump in my throat as I looked down at the first grave , the Balmoral on the cross was torn at the front as if a piece of shrapnel had smashed its way through the badge and into the soldier 's head . |
| 16 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 17 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |
| 18 | We talked of England : and my host was so inspiring in his eloquence on the subject of what England might have achieved in friendship with Germany that , as I looked out on the twilight enshrouding the Kurfiarstendamm I could think of nothing to say but Marlowe 's famous lines : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I heard a noise one night , like several motorbikes roaring down the road , only it was coming from above , and as I looked out of the window there they were — three red exhausts in the sky , blinding along a parallel course a few feet above the roof tops . |
| 21 | As I looked out of the window I noticed that frost was forming on cars . |
| 22 | As I looked out of the window into the black emptiness , I wondered about the great mystery of death , and thought of Helen Burns , who was so sure her spirit would go to heaven . |