Example sentences of "[conj] i looked [prep] " 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 | How long ago was it that I looked on the world with such innocent eyes ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What really struck me was that I looked like a concentration camp prisoner . |
| 6 | He talks of my ‘ reticence and charm ’ and says that I looked like an ‘ office-worker ’ ! |
| 7 | I 've lived on Skomer for six years now and before that I looked after a smaller seabird reserve on St Margaret 's Island . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | The newsagent 's , alas , was closed , so I looked at a couple of travel posters , then wandered back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Sally and I looked for something local and intense , a compromise between a traverse of the Meije in the wake of great names , or a pass crossing in the wake of a continental alpine course . |
| 12 | I looked and I looked as the candle fought with the wax and cast a flickering light on her face , and I just could n't get over her . |
| 13 | and I looked into his bronze , |
| 14 | ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning . |
| 15 | She swept them out , following them , fearing perhaps that they would add to Harry 's fatigue , and he and I looked at each other across the suddenly empty room in a shared fundamental awareness . |
| 16 | Both Coconut and I looked at him in astonishment . |
| 17 | ‘ Clark and I looked at the thing for five minutes and we said ‘ Wow ’ ’ , White told New Scientist . |
| 18 | Karen and I looked at each other , half-amused , half-disturbed . |
| 19 | The Lorrimores , followed by everyone still in the dining room , went dashing off into the dome car , but Emil and I looked at each other , and I said , ‘ How do we warn that train ? ’ |
| 20 | It took me about three or four minutes to rescue it and I looked at my ‘ prize ’ . |
| 21 | We sat right down by the ashes of a fire , and I looked at them , and I did n't wonder who could have made them . |
| 22 | Charlie and I looked at each other . |
| 23 | And I looked at all the rest of them — a tough lot , I can tell you — they could n't believe it either . |
| 24 | ‘ If I was Intel and I looked at how many processors I was able to sell and the limited market for the Pentium , initially , I would probably focus on the 486 this year as well . ’ |
| 25 | And I looked at his sad face . |
| 26 | Johann left the room and I looked at Sapt . |
| 27 | Like the midwife who came to see me said , " Ooh , you 're only seventeen " , and I looked at her — how old do you have to be to have a baby — forty or something ? |
| 28 | There was one particular hole and I looked at it and thought , in a million years we will never get up there . |
| 29 | Carradine and I looked at each other . |
| 30 | Susan and I looked at each other , eyebrows going up under our hoods . |