Example sentences of "[conj] i looked " in BNC.
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| 1 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 2 | Anxious to be seen as having made all the right decisions , she added with a little pride , ‘ There were n't no need for a nurse , 'cause I looked after the mistress myself … stayed up all night when the fever took her … mopped her brow and talked nice and low ‘ til she come through it . |
| 3 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 4 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 5 | I had not realized that I looked so old and tired . |
| 6 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 7 | I ca n't say that I looked too far ahead , probably because I 'm the kind of person who lives for today . |
| 8 | In fact , I came to the conclusion that I looked rather good in glasses . |
| 9 | absurd cries , so that I looked up , even then , |
| 10 | He remarked that I looked neither well nor happy . |
| 11 | I was much more at peace with myself and more accepting of the way that I looked . |
| 12 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 13 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 14 | My youngest daughter Ella will be two on Sunday — yet it seems like only yesterday that I looked at her pink , scrunched-up face for the first time and fell in love with her funny , quirky personality . |
| 15 | And now that I looked again at Mr White Face , I saw that beneath his paint his face had some of the configurations of a rat , with sharp little jaws and pointed nose , not at all like the inhabitants of Sarawak , a blunt-faced company , with which I was acquainted . |
| 16 | ‘ Not that I looked , really . ’ |
| 17 | I thought that I looked so smart in my white shoes , shorts , shirt and three cornered hat . |
| 18 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 19 | It was only after I 'd stopped doing that and gone into the corner to have a piss that I looked over into the other corner where there was a pile of rusty cans and old bottles ; there I saw the jagged stripes of the sleeping snake . |
| 20 | ‘ Ken Russell , the director , insisted I grew one of my own , rather than wear a false one , so that I looked completely convincing . |
| 21 | In burning his New Testament , he wrote , they did ‘ none other than I looked for : no more shall they do if they burn me also , if it be God 's will it shall be so ’ . |
| 22 | Then I remembered the location of a luxurious caravan a relative has near Perpignan , so I looked up the guide , and found that there are a number of crags nearby — even better . |
| 23 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
| 24 | Also I 'd had feedback from the moss chart that children enjoyed scouring the poster for tiny details , so I looked for a solution that would allow as many items as possible to be painted the same size . |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't , I just happened to see that tatty book of horoscopes Myra keeps on her desk while I was waiting for you one day , so I looked it up , ’ Dana said defiantly . |
| 26 | Benjamin nudged me with his knee so I looked away . |
| 27 | And I looked up to the air and saw the air in amazement . |
| 28 | And I looked up unto the pole of the heaven and saw it standing still , and the fowls of the heavens without motion . |
| 29 | And I looked upon the earth and saw a dish set , and workmen lying by it , and their hands were in the dish : and they that were chewing chewed not , and they that were lifting the food lifted it not , and they that put it to their mouth put it not thereto , but the faces of all of them were looking upward . |
| 30 | And I looked upon the stream of the river and saw the mouths of the kids upon the water and they drank not . |