Example sentences of "[pron] looked in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dutifully , I looked in my bag . |
| 2 | I looked in the bag , it was full of fish . |
| 3 | Walking across the Bonaparte Bridge , I looked in vain for what was marked by a giant cross on the tourist map . |
| 4 | When I looked in your bedroom she had him in there with her and he 'd left his camera downstairs . |
| 5 | I looked in the direction he was pointing — Roman villa , vestal virgins ' tent , WI stalls with Aunt Bedelia and Mrs Cartwright frantically buttering and jamming home-made scones , street theatre , Punch and Judy , and there 's old Jeremiah just passing the jazz band with his fingers in his ears . |
| 6 | Then I looked in my driving mirror and saw a girl I decided must be you . |
| 7 | I looked in books for some recognition but , strange to say , I found none . |
| 8 | But when I looked in the ZZAP ! |
| 9 | Although I was still ‘ tiny ’ ( a word used by one of them at the time ) by any normal standards , when I looked in the mirror , I saw someone who appeared to me to be ‘ gross ’ — a favourite word with anorexics , as Minuchin shows . |
| 10 | I have described how I looked in the mirror and , seeing myself ‘ in the flesh ’ did not recognise myself . |
| 11 | When I looked in the mirror and told myself , first , ‘ that ca n't be me ’ , and later , ‘ that wo n't be me ’ , what I was seeing was a woman . |
| 12 | I looked in a table of isotopes and found that the concentration of deuterium is 1.5 parts of 10 000 ( parts of ordinary water ) . |
| 13 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 14 | I looked in the mirror and pulled my mouth into strange shapes , aping bewilderment , comic dismay , tragic dignity . |
| 15 | I did not dawdle , but as I had to pass our post pigeonholes , from force of habit I looked in mine in case the second post had been sorted early . |
| 16 | Every time I looked in the mirror — and I can be a very careful driver if I want to be — I saw the languid bride with shuttered eyes and hair adrift . |
| 17 | " I looked in earlier but you were asleep . " |
| 18 | I looked in disbelief . |
| 19 | ‘ I looked in the likely places ; he could be anywhere . ’ |
| 20 | I looked in horror at Mr Wemmick . |
| 21 | under her shawl , but I looked in vain from |
| 22 | When I looked in a mirror , I could n't believe it . |
| 23 | I looked in the mirror today and I could see it in my eyes . |
| 24 | I looked in the folder again to see if I 'd missed anything . |
| 25 | And the rubbish bin in the kitchen was empty when I looked in it as we left . ’ |
| 26 | I looked in the editor 's office but no one was there . ’ |
| 27 | If only that was what I felt when I looked in the mirror , instead of anxiety over these little springs of steel . |
| 28 | Then , one day , when I was dressing it , I looked in the mirror and could see a small protrusion out of the lump . |
| 29 | I looked in the mirror and could see a small protrusion out of the lump . |
| 30 | I looked in the kitchen to find shelled coconut pieces to cut into small cubes for the fowls " morning feed . |