Example sentences of "he looked [adv] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that mattered was the next time he would see Kate ; beyond that he looked forward with an urgency that hurt to the first time they would make love . |
| 2 | As for the laird — ’ he looked round with a quick black glint , ‘ he can lead us by the nose . ’ |
| 3 | And for that — ’ he looked around with distaste — ‘ you do n't need to come to Egypt . ’ |
| 4 | He looked up with satisfaction at the panelling of the new box-beds — comfort and decency for all three of them , while others in the village still slept on the floor like beasts . |
| 5 | Indeed , Sombro was not long back from the town when he arrived at North Point and he appeared tired and wan as he looked up with those big eyes he inherited from the Labrador side of his lineage . |
| 6 | He looked up with moist eyes . |
| 7 | Then he looked up with a solemn expression and replied : ‘ Well , I would n't go as far as that . ’ |
| 8 | He looked up with bleak , pain-scarred eyes . |
| 9 | He looked up with a flash of panic — but then he calmed and smiled . |
| 10 | He looked up with interest , candidly returning the inspection , at Rhodri Parry 's agent . |
| 11 | But now the water flowed , water as from a spring whose source he had forgotten , the lost energy of young and wasted years ran into his limbs and mind and spirit so that he looked everywhere with honesty , with a sensation of being right in the world . |
| 12 | The three schoolmasters upon whom he looked back with gratitude tell something about the boy : ( 1 ) a clear-headed Anglo-Catholic priest with a rasp of a voice who taught classics , Henry Balmforth : ( 2 ) the librarian Burd , a true classical scholar , and the only master in the school said not to know the name of the captain of cricket : ( 3 ) a gentle teacher ( Hayward ) , more expert at moths and butterflies than adolescents . |
| 13 | One PC complained at length to a sergeant that the ‘ ground ’ where they both worked had become much quieter ; he looked back with nostalgia to the old days when the ground was much ‘ harder ’ and ‘ you could literally be strolling past a pub and a bloke would come staggering out with a knife in his back … ’ |
| 14 | He was turning back towards his car when he looked back with a casual afterthought . |
| 15 | She watched him turn to one of the inner doors , his head somehow lowered , and when he reached it he looked back with an aggressive jerk of his head . |
| 16 | He looked down with a smile . |