Example sentences of "when [noun prp] looked [prep] " in BNC.

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1 When Pascoe looked into the hallway , he saw Singer leaning against the door of his room , his back half-turned .
2 And when Cardiff looked at the upside-down dead eyes of that head as they reflected in the torchlight , when he saw the teeth set in a clenched and hideous grin … he recognised the face immediately .
3 His voice seemed loaded with meaning but when Marcus looked at him he was scanning the board .
4 But Madge had n't been pleased : she had n't shown any emotion at all when Marie looked round the door .
5 And so when Fael-Inis looked at him and said , ‘ It is something that is easily within your capabilities , good Calatin , ’ Calatin was very pleased , and said at once that he 'd do his best .
6 Even Granny was shocked when Grimma looked at her with a face from which all the colour had drained away .
7 Gary Speed was close twice and when Deane looked like bullocking through , David Burrow 's tackle was so desperate that the left back was booked .
8 Yet when Lukowiak looked for such a correlation he could not find it ; it seemed as if control of the strength of the reflex was not vested in any single cell of the abdominal ganglion , but was instead a property of the interactions between the ensemble of cells as a system .
9 When Carrie looked at Melody 's dripping hair hanging all about her face and the sodden dress clinging to her body , she realised Seb was telling the truth and her face lost its tightness .
10 The Direktor was silent and when Willi looked at him he was staring down at his glass , a disconcerted expression on his face as though Willi had said something embarrassing .
11 Al-Makesh smiled when Graham looked at him in surprise .
12 From 1859 caves became exciting to geologists , as they had been forty years earlier when Buckland looked for evidence of the Deluge .
13 ‘ Everything 's going fine , ’ the girl said , not quite so much of a girl when Diane looked at her close-to .
14 When Miranda looked up Puddle Lane , she could n't see anyone .
15 God looked at the earth , and the words are the same as were used when God looked at the earth on the days of creation .
16 When Coleman looked into this , DIA assets in Lebanon reported that much of it was being printed there , with large numbers of genuine $1 bills being bleached to provide the right paper for phony $100 bills .
17 When Rosa looked at the Madonna of the Spasm , she did not see the immaculate mother , the tower of ivory , the fountain sealed , the spring shut up , the enclosed garden of the Madonna 's perpetual virginity .
18 When Tony looked in the catalogue there was the Lagonda .
19 When Rachel looked at someone , she saw what was there to see .
20 When Cissie looked like breaking in , Beth went on , ‘ What about cartage … and how long will they keep in certain conditions ?
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