Example sentences of "[subord] i looked [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I looked up at last , it was to see the near cliffs bright with the afternoon sun , and the sea creaming calmly against the storm beach in the gentlest of high tides . |
| 2 | In July 1914 while preparing the volume for publication , he confided to his close friend Florence Henniker : ‘ Some of them I rather shrink from printing — those I wrote just after Emma died , when I looked back at her as she had originally been , & when I felt miserable lest I had not treated her considerately in her latter life . |
| 3 | We were walking along the promenade feeling really good in our best gear , when I looked down at my feet . |
| 4 | And when I looked down at my ankle they 'd put this label on me . ’ |
| 5 | As I looked up at him he placed a steaming hot mess-tin full of what looked like Machonachie stew on the floor of the barn beside me. |
| 6 | I wondered , as I looked round at the massed ranks of chaps , young and old . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As I looked down at him lying there it was difficult to believe that this was Shimi Lovat . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then , as I looked back at the dark , inscrutable carob tree , I did feel a faint touch of fear . |