Example sentences of "as [pron] look [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My worries melted as I looked at her . |
| 2 | As I looked at her , I thought of her shrinking , like someone in a fairytale , and how one day I might hold her in the palm of my hand with her little voice squeaking commands at me as if she was a mouse I 'd picked up in the garden . |
| 3 | The faces seemed to shift as I looked at them . |
| 4 | The Frenchman shook my hand and as I looked at him and his family I thought slowly to myself , ‘ What a bloody chance he is taking . |
| 5 | As I looked at him sitting opposite me on the floor of the trench , I was fascinated by his resemblance to the other Commandos I had met over the past five days . |
| 6 | I had already loosened the overcoat and was thinking as I looked at him , This very minute you are going on the longest journey a man ever takes and you have n't a frigging clue . |
| 7 | As I looked at him , it seemed I had found a brother and sisters to love and be proud of for the rest of my life . |
| 8 | For a moment I sensed his eye staring at me through the hole in the door but as soon as I looked at it the lens flashed and the cover on the other side swung quickly to rest . |
| 9 | My heart sank as I looked at it . |
| 10 | I thought as soon as I looked at it . |
| 11 | As I looked at his stern face , I knew I could go anywhere in the world with him as a colleague , but I could never lose my freedom by marrying him . |
| 12 | And as I looked at my little daughter , bright-eyed and ready to challenge the world , I could only pray that I would be ‘ good enough ’ in the new dance that was just beginning . |
| 13 | There was a look of betrayal in her small , moony eyes , and as I looked into them I could n't help feeling a sense of guilt . |
| 14 | But as I looked into her lovely face , I knew I could not live with the lie . |
| 15 | There was a chandelier directly overhead , and a thousand little tingles of pain edged back into my head as I looked into it . |
| 16 | ‘ Once you and Captain Charles are married I shall look after your babies , Lucinda , as I looked after you . ’ |
| 17 | On my right , as I look at it , are the five lofty plane trees which shade the back gardens of Downing Street . |
| 18 | I 'm not bothered Kath because er er as I look at it it 's more for me to put in front of him when I get to him |
| 19 | I have no wish to disturb your contentment — a contentment which , as I look at my bookshelves , I must own I partly share . |
| 20 | As I look behind me the queue was getting bigger and bigger . . |
| 21 | Yeah , as long as I look like her . |
| 22 | My heart is very heavy as I look upon My Church . |
| 23 | As you looked at her more and more insects swarmed on to her ; then , as the weight grew too much for the insects underneath to cling to her smooth skin , great black cakes of them flaked away and fell fizzing to the ground . |
| 24 | Your hatred of my mother disappeared as you looked at her . |
| 25 | His closed side lies to your right as you look at him . |
| 26 | The lines seem to shift and shimmer as you look at them and before long you have a powerful desire to look away , anywhere but at the painfully dazzling pattern in front of you . |
| 27 | Some of these exercises are difficult to achieve and as you look at them , some of them could be way beyond your grasp — for the moment . |
| 28 | Some day you 'll come across her and you 'll know it , as soon as you look at her , you 'll know it . |
| 29 | You forget that it is a picture as you look at it … |
| 30 | It is no good insisting that , so long as you look at it with your eyes closed , a pig 's ear is a silk purse after all . |